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When we say "put out the fire," or "his heart became as water," we are referring to the act of burning, or are using an image which likens the thing spoken of to a substance in the act of liquefying. As we do to-day, so the alchemists did before us; they used the words fire and water to express different ideas.
I do not know any passages in "The Suppliants" that equal in poetry the more striking verses of "The Persians," or "The Seven against Thebes." XIII. Attempts have been made to convey to modern readers a more familiar notion of Aeschylus by comparisons with modern poets. One critic likens him to Dante, another to Milton but he resembles neither.
In Robbery under Arms the names are given of thirty races represented on the Turon field, and Hereward Pole, recounting his early impressions of Yatala, says: 'I was never done wondering of what struck me as the chief characteristic of this great army of adventurers suddenly gathered together from all seas and lands, namely, its outward propriety and submission to the law. Elsewhere he likens the sensible reticence which they observed respecting their own affairs and those of their neighbours to the demeanour and mode of thought which prevails in club life.
He did not believe them capable of conceding the real object in dispute, but he feared lest they might obscure the judgment of the plain and well meaning people with whom they had to deal. Alluding to the constant attempts made to poison himself and his brother, he likens the pretended negotiations to Venetian drugs, by which eyesight, hearing, feeling, and intellect were destroyed.
Although questionable, it is perhaps to be preferred to other proposed explanations such as automatism, habit, "instinct," "nervous connections." Carpenter, who as promoter of "unconscious cerebration," deserves to be consulted, likens this state to reflection.
The inadequacy of all these ought to be pressed home upon us more than it is, not only by their limitations whilst they last, but by the transiency of them all. 'The fashion of this world passeth away, as the Apostle John puts it, in a forcible expression which likens all this frame of things to a panorama being unwound from one roller and on to another.
Occasionally in the slight extravagance of his imagery we can see that the influence of the seventeenth-century "metaphysical" poets has not left him unscathed, as when he likens love to the influence of spring opening up navigation. But it is a sure instinct which has taken him to the simpler lyrical poets and led him to mould his style on theirs.
While the breath abides in the breast. Vanish'd like smoke, the spirit beneath the earth. Here he makes the vital spirit, being humid, a breath; when it is extinguished he likens it to smoke. His words fresh vigor in the chief infus'd. Breathing away his spirit. But when her breath and spirit returned again.
'How goodly, he cries, 'are thy tents, oh Jacob, and thy camp, oh Israel. He likens them, not to the locust swarm, the sea flood, nor the forest fire, but to the most peaceful, and most fruitful sights in nature or in art. They are spread forth like the water-courses, which carry verdure and fertility as they flow.
For every human being is like a facet cut in the great diamond to which I may dare liken the father of him who likens his kingdom to a pearl. Every man, woman, child for the incomplete also is his, and in its very incompleteness reveals him as a progressive worker in his creation is a revealer of God. I have my message of my great Lord, you have yours.
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