We also have Catachresis, a figure "by which a word is wrested from its original application, and made to express something at variance with its true meaning." See § 582.

4. Homer calls words winged; and the epithet is peculiarly appropriate to his, which do indeed seem to fly, so rapid and light is their motion, and which have been flying ever since over the whole peopled earth, and still hover and brood over many an awakened soul. Latin marches, Italian struts, French hops, English walks, German rumbles along. The music of Klopstock's hexameter is not unlike the tune with which a broad-wheeled wagon tries to solace itself when crawling down a hill. But Greek flies, especially in Homer.-Guesses at Truth, Second Series.

Here we have Metaphors, and a Simile, and a number of Personifications.

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A mirthful man he was; the snows of age
Fell, but they did not chill him. Gayety,
Even in life's closing, touched his teeming brain
With such wild visions as the setting sun

Raises in front of some hoar glacier,

Painting the bleak ice with a thousand hues.-SCOTT.

Talent convinces; Genius but excites:

This tasks the reason; that the soul delights.
Talent from sober judgment takes its birth,
And reconciles the pinion to the earth;
Genius unsettles with desires the mind,
Contented not till earth be left behind.
Talent, the sunshine on a cultured soil,
Ripens the fruit by slow degrees for toil;
Genius, the sudden Iris of the skies,
On cloud itself reflects its wondrous dyes,
And to the earth in tears and glory given,

Clasps in its airy arch the pomp of heaven!-BULWER.

7. The traitor lives! Lives! did I say? He mixes with the Senate; he shares in our counsels; with a steady eye he surveys us; he anticipates his guilt; he enjoys his murderous thoughts, and coolly marks us out for bloodshed.-CICERO.

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To fall asleep in this benighted world,

And in an instant wake in realms of day.-WILCOX.

9. She repeats the Creed in dying, and, like other Mussulmans, says, "In this faith I have lived, in this faith I die, and in this faith I hope to rise again.-Bishop SOUTHGATE.

10. I do not attack him from love of glory, but from love of utility as a burgomaster hunts a rat in a Dutch dike, for fear it should flood a province.-Rev. SYDNEY SMITH.

11. Of Chalmers, Canning said, "The tartan beats us; we have no preaching like that in England."

12. Private credit is wealth; public honor is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight: strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.-JUNIUS.

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The chariot! the chariot! its wheels roll on fire!

As the Lord cometh down in the pomp of his ire:
Self-moving it drives on its pathway of cloud,

And the heavens with the burden of Godhead are bowed!

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Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,

MILMAN.

15.

While proudly rising o'er the azure realm,

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes;

Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm;

Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway,

That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.-GRAY.

He loved his friends with such a warinth of heart,

So clear of interest, so devoid of art;

Such generous friendship, such unshaken zeal,

No words can speak it, but our tears can tell.

O candid truth! of faith without a stain;

O manners! gently fair and nobly plain;

O sympathizing love of others' bliss!

Where will you find another breast like his ?-Lord LYTTELTON.

16. "An ambition to have a place in the registers of Fame is the Eurystheus which imposes heroic labors on mankind."

17. "Conscience, good my lord, is but the pulse of reason." 18. "I move that the committee be full."

"I would modify the gentleman's motion by moving that the chair be added to the committee."

By twilight glimpse discovered! Mark! how they flee
From the fierce sea-blast, all their tresses wild

Streaming before them!-WORDSWORTH,

20. "A blind man is necessarily a man of much feeling; his progress through life is touching in the extreme."

21. "What an awful thing it must be for a man to lie at the point of death."

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I see a voice; now will I to the chinks to
Spy an I can hear my Thisbe's face.-SHAKSPEARE,
Between two dogs, which flies the higher pitch;
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
Between two blades, which bears the better temper;
Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;
I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment;
But in these nice, sharp quillets of the law,

Good faith! I am no wiser than a daw.—King Henry VI.

Farewell! farewell! until Pity's sweet fountain

Is lost in the hearts of the fair and the brave,

They'll weep for the chieftain who died on that mountain,
They'll weep for the maiden who sleeps in this wave.

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls-the world!-BYRON.

Lallah Rookh.

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Hear me, my mother Earth! Behold it, Heaven!
Have I not had to wrestle with my lot?

27.

Have I not suffered things to be forgiven?
Have I not had my brain seared, my heart riven,
Hopes sapp'd, name blighted, life's life lied away?
And only not to desperation driven,

Because not altogether of such clay

As rots into the souls of those whom I survey.-BYRON.

"Grant me one leaf of Daphne's deathless plant,

Nor let thy votary's hope be deemed an idle vaunt."

28. Do you not imagine that Themistocles also, and those who fell at Marathon and at Platæa, and the very tombs of our ancestors, will raise a groan, if this man, who, avowedly siding with barbarians, opposed the Greeks, shall be crowned?-Es

CHINES.

29. I then I call you witness, ye earth and sun! and virtue, and intellect, and education, by which we distinguish what is honorable from what is base-have given my help and have spoken; and if I have conducted the accusation adequately, and in a manner worthy of the transgression of the laws, I have spoken as I wished; if imperfectly, then only as I have been able. But do you, both from what has been said and what has been omitted, of yourselves, decide as is just and convenient on behalf of the country.-ASCHINES.

30. But it can not be! No, my countrymen! it can not be you have acted wrong in encountering danger bravely for the liberty and safety of all Greece. No! by those generous souls of ancient times who were exposed at Marathon! By those who stood arrayed at Platea! By those who encountered the Persian fleet at Salamis! who fought at Artemisium! No! by all illustrious sons of Athens, whose remains lie deposited in the public monuments!-DEMOSTHENES.

31.

Slave of the dark and dirty mine!

What vanity has brought thee here?

How can I love to see thee shine

So bright, whom I have bought so dear?

The tent-ropes flapping lone I hear,

For twilight converse arm in arm;

The jackal's shriek bursts on my ear,

When mirth and music wont to cheer.-LEYden.

32. Every good and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh from the Father of light, with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of turning.--New Testament.

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I burn! I burn! as when through ripened corn,
By driving winds the spreading flames are borne!
Phaon to Ætna's scorching fields retires,

While I consume with more than Etna's fires.—OVID.

O Death all eloquent! you only prove

What dust we dote on, when 'tis man we love.-POPE.

35. For what greater blow could those judges-if they are to be called judges, and not rather parricides of their countryhave given to the state than when they banished that very man who, when prætor, delivered the republic from a neighboring, and who, when consul, saved it from a civil war.—CICERO.

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What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
'Tis she; but why that bleeding bosom gored?
Why dimly gleams the visionary sword?
O ever beauteous, ever friendly, tell,

Is it in heaven a crime to love too well?

To bear too tender or too firm a heart,

To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky

For those who greatly think or bravely die?—POPE.

37. But what could you have done in such a case and at

such a juncture? when to have sat still or to have withdrawn would have been cowardice, when the wickedness and fury of Saturnius had sent for you into the Capitol, and the consul had called you to protect the safety and liberty of your country? Whose authority, whose voice, which party would you have followed? and whose orders would you have chosen to obey?— CICERO.

38. Some have at first for wits, then poets pass'd,

Turn'd critics next, and proved plain fools at last.-POPE. 39. As the stream, late conceal'd by the fringe of its willows, When it rushes reveal'd by the light of its billows;

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As the bolt bursts on high from the black cloud that bound it,
Flash'd the soul of that eye through the long lashes round it.

Her hair, I said, was auburn, but her eyes

Were black as death, their lashes the same hue,
Of downcast length, in whose silk shadow lies
Deepest attraction.-BYRON.

When Freedom, dress'd

In blood-stain'd vest,

To every knight her war-song sung;
Upon her head wild weeds were spread,

A gory anlace by her hung.

42. "Jeremy Taylor is the Shakspeare of divinity."

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crown.

Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes,

And broods them o'er with miser care;

Time but the impression stronger makes,

As streams their channel deeper wear.—BURNS.

BYRON.

44. I am a Royalist, I blushed for the degradation of the I am a Whig, I blushed for the dishonor of Parliament. I am a true Englishman, I felt to the quick for the disgrace of England. I am a man, I felt for the melancholy reverse of human affairs in the fall of the first power in the world.—BURKE.

45. For a good opinion begets security; security begets negligence; temptation a fall; (and, if unrepented), a fall into that state where our wish will be that we never had been born.YOUNG.

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That he is mad 'tis true, 'tis pity;

And pity 'tis, 'tis true.-Hamlet.

May the grass wither from thy feet! the woods

Deny thee shelter! earth a home! the dust

A grave the sun his light! and heaven a God!-BYRON'S Cain.

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