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" The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," The imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety ; it sees all things in one, il piti nelV uno. "
Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for ... - Page 310
by Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 480 pages
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Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 394 pages
...some accidental coincidence; as in the wellknown passage in Hudibras : — " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boyl'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." * The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1838 - 460 pages
...and eminent, Butler, amongst a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : And DOW 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 ". Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet,...
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The Works of George Campbell: Philosophy of rhetoric

George Campbell - 1840 - 450 pages
...Butler, amongst a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : And now had Phcebus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap : And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn 4. Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet,...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1841 - 416 pages
...Butler, amongst a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : And now had Phcebus 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 the low allegorical style of the first couplet,...
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The Romancist, and novelist's library. Ed. by W. Hazlitt, Volume 3

1841 - 556 pages
...recollection soon gunk together, bound in the chains of sleep. Г CHAPTER XI. " The Sun had long «¡осе, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lohster hoil'd, the moon From hlack to red hegan to turn, When, ruhbing first, my drowsy eyes, From...
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Softness, by the author of 'Hardness'.

Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - 968 pages
...they took the bridle-road, and returned by Rydalmere to Ambleside. ******* ' The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap; And, like...boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn,' hefore (as the fine writers have it) sleep visited the eyes of our hero, who had found something to...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 37

1856 - 606 pages
...blow." " For what is worth in anything But so much money as 'twill bring ?" " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like...boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." " And we are best of all led to Men's principles by what they do ;" " For the more languages a man...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 48

1856 - 1432 pages
...blow." " For what is worth in anything But so much money as " t will bring ? " " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like...boiled, the morn . From black to red began to turn." " And we are best of all led to Men's principles by what they do." " For the more languages a man can...
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Hampton Court; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled

Hampton Court - 1844 - 978 pages
...With that Sir Jeffery and the jester stole away, leaving Monk with Anthony. " 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." The morning was just breaking, as our friend Sam...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster. " 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 : When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aching 'Twixt sleeping...
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