7 Metaphors for immortals

The other unborn immortals are mythical warriors and adulterers, like the popular deities of Greece.

Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'T is a necessity.

""Immortal," was Denon's reply.

Can we as men, or as christians, hear that a great part of our fellow creatures, whose souls are as immortal as ours, and who are as capable as ourselves, of adorning the gospel, and contributing by their preaching, writings, or practices to the glory of our Redeemer's name, and the good of his church, are inveloped in ignorance and barbarism?

Yet if a printer and a bookseller can be induced to make this gabble as immortal as print and publication can make it, then it straightway is literature, and in due time it becomes "curious.

The same is possible to no other class of artists: even the scholar, buried in his profound studies, must descend from his abstraction; the poet, the painter, cannot share it: for the latter, however much he clubs and cliques, is seldom sufficiently dispossessed of himself; and the other, though he strike out of his heat poems as immortal as stars, may yet live among clods and feel no thrill returning on himself.

Nothing less immortal than wit!

7 Metaphors for  immortals