...worthy of the middle ages. Note 22, page 118, line 14. " Shift, like boiled lobsters, to the red" And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. Hudibras. Note 23, page 12O, line 5 Now for my favourite Martingale. A Martingale is when a punter,...

...use, That always goes along with goose) How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn," Till midnight, when I went to bed, And clapp'd my tewah-diddle * on my head. Who is there cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well...

...always goes along with goose) How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boil'd, the mom From black to red began to turn," Till midnight, when I went to bed, And clapp'd my tewah-ditldle * on my head. Who is there cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well...

...That always goes along with goose) ( How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn," Till midnight, when I went to bed, And clapp'd my tewah-diddle* on my head. Who is there cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well ?...

...then, do the comparisons which arc witty, such as those already cited, or Hnilibras's famous simile, " When, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," differ from those which arc not witty ? This brings us at last to the true definition of Wit, and to...

...comparison from Hudibras ; " And now had Phoebus in the lap " Of Thetis taken out his nap; • " And, like a lobster boiled, the morn " From black to red began to turn. We find illustrations of burlesque also in those instances, where objects of real dignity and importance...

...ideas, in bombastic writing : " And now had Phoebus in the lap " Of Thetis taken out his nap ; " And like a lobster boiled, the morn " From black to red began to turn." The sublime ideas connected with the sun, and the classical associations united with the name of Thetis,...

...looked out. The day faintly dawned, but not with rosy light. I could not say with Hudibras : 1 Now, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn.' I strayed along the sullen shores toward the mill-dam. There standing on the bridge, wreathed with...

...incongruity appearing where a congruity was expected." As, for instance, in the similie in Hudibras : " When, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." Or, " He had been beaten till he knew The wood whereof the cudgel grew, And kicked until he could tell...

...known simile in Hudibras : — But now the sun long since his nap Had taken out in Thetis' lap, And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. Here the qualities of resemblance, the colours of black and red, are applied in a literal sense to...