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The Jew was to Clotilde as flesh of swine to the Jew. Her parents had the same abhorrence of Jewry. One of the favourite similes of the family for whatsoever grunted in grossness, wriggled with meanness, was Jew: and it was noteworthy from the fact that a streak of the blood was in the veins of the latest generation and might have been traced on the maternal side.
If the Dean had known Kit better, he would have realized that in emotional moments she was prone to exaggerated similes, but as it was, he felt impressed. "Why, God bless my heart and soul," he exclaimed, "I had no idea it was as bad as this. I thought Jerry was very comfortably fixed." "Oh, we were at the Cove.
It has been described by almost every writer who ever put words together about Rome, but no words, no similes, no comparisons, can make those see it who were never there.
As an example, an "eye-shot" does not commend itself as a substitute for "a glance," and "to tee-hee" for "to giggle" grates somewhat upon the ear, though the authority of Chaucer might be cited for the expressions. Next in order is his extraordinary faculty for the use of pithy similes, which arrest the attention and stimulate the imagination.
He used a good many illustrations, and these were drawn from matters with which this particular congregation were conversant. He was as full of similes here as he was sparing of them when he preached before the University of Oxford. Any one who had read this sermon in a book of sermons would have divined what sort of congregation it was preached to a primrose of a sermon. Mr.
It finds as splendid a vent in the curses of Caliban: All the infection that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal a disease! and in the similes of Trinculo: Yond' same black cloud, yond' huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
He must have strode proudly along his cell as he put his praise and his scorn into imperishable similes. But Bunyan had never been great had he been merely disagreeable. He had infinite wit in him. It was his carnal genius that saved him.
If this were not so, it would be difficult to see why his thoughts should not perish like those of other men. Metaphors and similes are of great value, in so far as they explain an unknown relation by a known one. Even the more detailed simile which grows into a parable or an allegory, is nothing more than the exhibition of some relation in its simplest, most visible and palpable form.
With the great stones which he had brought and fashioned he built a reservoir and a basin for the temple. And seven of the great stones he set up as stelæ, and he gave them favourable names. The text then recounts the various parts and shrines of the temple, and it describes their splendours in similes drawn from the heavens and the earth and the abyss, or deep, beneath the earth.
Their verbal elaboration was greater, and thus they both excel him. A careful study of all the similes in Latin poetry would bring to light some interesting facts of literary criticism. That descriptive power in which all the Romans excelled is nowhere more striking than in these short and pleasing cameos. The death of Domitian was the end of tyranny in Rome.
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