...Cowflips their Bells, ¿ And Progne her Complaint of Tereus tells. - ¿ Gar. The Sun had long fince in the Lap Of Thetis taken out his Nap ; And, like a Lobifer boil'd, the Morn From black to red began to turn. Hud. Aurora on Etefian Breezes borne, With...

...• "With entering manfully, and urging; Not flow approaches, like a virgin. The fun had long fince in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap; And, like a lohfter boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Canto i. Part 2. canto 2. Books, like men,...

...flow approaches, like a virgin. Canto I. With entering manfully, and urging ; The fun had long fince in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap ; And, like a lobfter boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Part 2. cants 2. coming into the world; but...

...their faith, Each driving to make good his own, As by the fequel (hall be (hown. The fun had long fmce, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And like a lob Mer boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn ; IÏ4 HUDIBRAS. P. II. CH 49. Where now arriv'd,...

...poflefled of that very turn of fancy which produced the drollery in queftion. * The fun had long fince in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like a lobfter boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. " of fuch an odd union of images. We " But...

...lively fenfe of pleafure. This we may perceive in the following lines of Butler: The fun had long fince in the lap] Of Thetis taken out his nap; And, like a lobfter boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. HUD. Part II. Cant. II. Ver. 29. This effect...

...that the laugh arifes from our " fuppofing the author to aflume for a moment * The fun had long fince in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like a lobfter hoil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. c ^ the character of one who, from his ignorance...

...actxcM rf rt brie wrre f.fr.^t si" f .^ 'vaifr.i£.i, ..•» k: za'S s:i...'£, ^u.;w«i.. And, lite a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn; ' • . When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aking 'Twixt sleeping kept, all night, and waking, Began to...

...Butler, amongst a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : And now had Phoebus in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap : And, like...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, afford...

...(Scottilh). Butler thus defcribcs the morning, ludicroufly, but wittily : *" The fun had long fince, in the lap * Of Thetis, taken out his nap; And, like a lobfter boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. " This pleafes as an ingenious piece of wit....