18 Metaphors for steele

In the twinkling of an eye Steele became the spoiled darling of the day.

Steele was no follower of Addison's.

Accordingly there is not a Lady at Court, nor a Banker in Lombard Street, who is not verily persuaded that Captain STEELE is the greatest Scholar and best Casuist of any man in England.

Steele 'Miserum est alienæ incumbere famæ, Ne collapsa ruant subductis tecta columnis.' Juv.

" It appears that Mr. Steele was satisfied with this his first step, and he took no other for some time.

In the latter years of the seventeenth century, when Steele and Addison were students at Oxford, most English writers were submissive to the new strength of the critical genius of France.

And so the people crowded to the theatre, applauded the sentiment of the play, guffawed at the keen wit of the dialogue, and swore that this young rascal Steele was the prince of bright fellows.

Steele was in almost every respect the antithesis of his friend and fellow-worker,a rollicking, good-hearted, emotional, lovable Irishman.

Steele was a good-natured, careless individual, with a varied experience as soldier, playwright, moralist, keeper of the official gazette, and pensioner.

M. Steele, D.D., the President of the University at this present time, is a man of fine literary attainments, an able administrator, a superior preacher, and a writer of pronounced reputation.

Steele and Addison were conscious moralists as well as literary men.

A Mr. Steele was the occupant, and Mr. James McFarlane and some others, claimants.

The story concerns Savage, but Steele is the hero of it, and as winsome Dick is always welcome, we may take leave of the other Dick in a pleasant way.

Of the two, Addison's is the greater name, but Steele was the more innovating spirit, for it is to him, and not to Addison, that the conception and initiation of the plan of the celebrated papers is due.

Elihu Steele was my old master.

Miss Steele was a plain girl about thirty, whose whole conversation was of beaux; while Miss Lucy Steele, a pretty girl of twenty-three, was, despite her native cleverness, probably common and illiterate.

Of all Addison's friends, Steele had long been the most intimate of the younger men whom he had taken under his patronage.

Steele was its projector, founder, editor, and he was writer of that part of it which took the widest grasp upon the hearts of men.

18 Metaphors for  steele