...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 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, afford...

...fhall be mown. The fun had long fmce, in the lap 30 Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobfter boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn; When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aching 'Twixt fleeping kept, all night, and waking, 35 Began to rub his drowfy eyes, And from his couch...

...long finee,' in the lap Of Thetis, nken out his nap, 30 And like a lobfter boil'd, the morn From blaek to red began to turn ; When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aking 'Twixt fteeping kept, -all night, and waking, Began to rub his drowfy eyes, 35 And from his eoueh prepar'd...

...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 each...

...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 colour...

...good his own, As by the seqnel shall be shown. The snn had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken ont his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to tnrn ; When Hndibras, whom thonghts and aking Twixt sleeping kept, all night, and waking, Began to...

...transient infe» 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 him...

...as in the passage of 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...

...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...

...and some noble objeet. 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 the sun...