When the red men had indulged to satiety in tobacco-smoke from their peace-pipes, and in what they love still bettertheir peculiar metaphoric rhodomontade, which, beginning with the celestial bodies, and coursing downward over the grandest sublunary objects, always managed to alight at last on their "Great Father," Polk, and the tenderness with which his affectionate red children regarded him.

" The metaphoric 'Angel' of enamored swains is at once so trite and obvious, that both the invention and vocabulary of the lover who abides by it so perpetually must have been poor and narrow beyond anything we can conceive of Spenser's fecundity of language and imagery, if we sit down content to imagine that no more is meant by its recurrence than meets the eye.

This was a merely metaphoric bite; The next was fact, and gave the boy a fright: For lo!

If one were to describe the present age, one might, as far as regards France, call it, both literally and metaphorically, the Iron Age; for it is certain, the character of the times would justify the metaphoric application, and the disappearance of every other metal the literal one.

If one were to describe the present age, one might, as far as regards France, call it, both literally and metaphorically, the Iron Age; for it is certain, the character of the times would justify the metaphoric application, and the disappearance of every other metal the literal one.

The metaphoric 'infancy' of which Guarini speaks is the pre-dramatic period of pastoral growth.

It may be well to warn a beginner that he must not attempt this style until he has laid in a large stock of variegated metaphoric expressions.