...burlesque descriptions are inimitable. For example, of Horning — The sun had long since, in the lap rst, Him last, Him midst, and without end ! Fairest mom From black to red began to turn. Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put down, some...

...Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night into day, viz.: " 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." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject— " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...

...Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night into day, viz. : " 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." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject — " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...

...Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night intoday, viz. : " 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." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject — " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...

...daybreak, hastening to change his uniform for the more sober dress of his clerical profession, "' So, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn.'" It certainly needed all the importance of the defensive service in which he was engaged, to blend without...

...daybreak, hastening to change his uniform for the more sober dress of his clerical profession, — " ' So, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn.' " It certainly needed all the importance of the defensive service in which he was engaged, to blend...

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

...burlesque descriptions are inimitable. Fur example, of Morning — The sun had long since, in the lap Infernal Reijions."] [The dcflcrlptlon of the Puke of Buckingham — the Huckfngbum, H muât be re Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put down, some write, by ladies' eyes , The moon pull'd...

...Scottish. Butler thus describes the morning, ludicrously, but wittily : " 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." This pleases as an ingenious piece of wit. The whimsicamess of the comparison makes us smile ; but...

...shown better than by the often-quoted simile of 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." This is usually cited as an instance of wit, but that it owes its effect not so much to the ingenuity...