...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 prepar'd...

...(Scottifh). Butler thus defcribes 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....

...maintain what their sect averr'd ; All which the Knight and Squire, in wrath, 25 Had like t' have suffered for their faith, Each striving to make good his own,...long since, in the lap Of THETIS, taken out his nap, 30 And, like a lobster hoil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn, When HUDIRS.IS, whom thoughts...

...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...

...so " it is said, we may imagine a transient infe» riority, either real or assumed, even in a per* The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...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...

...combination is made in the very words, as in the passage of Hudibras. quoted by, I think, Lord Kaimes " The sun had long since in the lap " Of Thetis taken...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...

...now see how the same natural phenomenon, the return of morning, is exhibited in Butler's Hudibras. The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...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 far the...

...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...