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Aristotle, however, subjoins it to the metaphor, as he likewise does the Abuse or Catachresis; by which, for instance, we say a narrow, contracted soul, instead of a mean one, and thus steal an expression which has a kindred meaning with the proper one, either for the sake of ornament or decency. When several metaphors are connected together in a regular chain, the form of speaking is varied.
The tautotes, or repetition of the same thing, is, I think, full as common amongst the English. The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure. You must listen to the definition of a catachresis: 'A catachresis is the boldest of any trope.
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools. How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.
"The not observing of this Rule, is that which the World has blamed in our satirist CLEVELAND. To express a thing hard and unnaturally is his New Way of Elocution. Tis true, no poet but may sometimes use a catachresis. VIRGIL, does it, "Mistaque ridenti Colocasia fundet Acaniho "in his Eclogue of POLLIO. "And in his Seventh AEneid
I scorn to be as abusive as Horace upon the occasion but if there is no catachresis in the wish, and no sin in it, I wish from my soul, that every imitator in Great Britain, France, and Ireland, had the farcy for his pains; and that there was a good farcical house, large enough to hold aye and sublimate them, shag rag and bob-tail, male and female, all together: and this leads me to the affair of Whiskers but, by what chain of ideas I leave as a legacy in mort-main to Prudes and Tartufs, to enjoy and make the most of.
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools. How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honor or wealth with all his worth and pains! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. For shame! dear friend, renounce this canting strain!
The stone furze ditches are scarcely bolder instances of the catachresis than the stone tables of shittim-wood.
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