9 Metaphors for epigram

The English epigram, which was signed J.A. Hessey, was a rhyming version of a story which Lamb was fond of telling.

He said Owen was a poor pedantic school-master, sucking his living from the posteriors of little children, and has nothing good in him, his epigrams being bare narrations.

His epigrams on Reynolds are masterpieces of virulent abuse; the punishment which he devised for Klopstockhis impersonation of 'flaccid fluency and devout sentiment'is unprintable; as for those who attempt to enforce moral laws, they shall be 'cast out,' for they 'crucify Christ with the head downwards.'

The epigram of Seneca, "longum iter per praecepta, breve per exempla," was the popular catchword of the age.

Speaking of Vautrin she says, "His look frightens me as if he put his hand on my dress;" and another epigram from the same book, "Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention."

The epigram in his hands was no longer a mere inscription, an idyl, or an elegy; it had lost its ancient grace, but it took on a new energy, and it set the model, which the later Romans knew well how to copy, of satire condensed into wit, in lines each of whose words had a sting.

" I would add, that I believe this Epigram to be Dr. Kenrick's, Goldsmith's old persecutor in later years.

The epigram might just as reasonably have been the other way round.

Their epigrams and platitudes are merely the symptoms of different methods of thought.

9 Metaphors for  epigram