...respectable friend, who entertains us with a merry • The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap , And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn. Rtdiknt, But ii, Ctxii I, PORTRAITURES OF THE FRENCH, BIFORE AND SINCB THE REVOLUTION. CONSIDER.',;;....

...other instances, hath given us those which follow : And now had Phoebus in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap : And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn *. , i Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet, and the simile used in the second,...

...wit. Thus the author of Hudibras finds a resemblance between the morning and a boiled lobster: When like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. A man of science, on the contrary, exerts his judgment to discover wherein objects differ from...

...give one Instance, is that comparison in Hudibras,of the dawn of the morning to a boiled lobster; * like a lobster ' boil'd the morn from black to red began to turn.* At first, there seems to be no resemblance at all : but, when we recollect, that the lobster's...

...riority, either real or assumed, even in a per* The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From .black to red began to turn. " son whom we admire; and that, when we " smile at Butler's allusion, we for a moment " conceive...

...Hudibras. quoted by, I think, Lord Kaimes " The sun had long since in the lap " Of Thetis taken out his nap ; " And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn " From black to red begun to turn." » Also what Dryden makes his renegade say of priests, which by the way is stolen by...

...of morning, is exhibited in Butler's Hudibras. The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap , And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Here, as in the passage from Homer, is an allegorical personage rising from sleep ; and thus...

...junction of things by distant and fanciful relations Thus in the following simile from Hudibras, Now like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. the total dissimilarity of the objects in every circumstance, except that which brings them forcibly...

...Sueh is that very noted one of Hudibras; " The sun had, long sinee, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." • This short sentenee eontains a double eontrast of the same ridieulous ^ind; one between...

...his mother, " how much you used to admire one burlesque simile which he was often repeating— ' Now, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn — ' " " Dear me ! yes, to be sure I do ; and - that was by Hudibras, was it ? " St. Aubyn finding...