I am obliged to use these metaphors, otherwise I could give no explanation of my condition, seized upon against my will, and torn from all those moorings of reason to which I clung with desperation, as long as I had the strength.

Or to change the metaphor, the bear and his tormentor have changed places.

If I may borrow a metaphor from her own favourite theme, she is for ever dashing off on some alluring cross-scent.

You're mixing your metaphors.

But, if I may borrow a familiar metaphor from theif I may employ a homely metaphor familiar to you allwhat we lose on the swings we gain on the roundabouts.

To drop metaphors, I am sure you have done wisely.

"The crowding into one period or thought different figures of speech, is not less faulty than crowding metaphors in that manner.

It was Grattan, I think, who said, 'When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.'

At last the sport slackens; for the sportsman is getting tired, and hungry also, to carry on the metaphor; for he has seen the postman come up the front walk a quarter of an hour since, and the letters have not been brought in yet.

When I had yet remained neglected in the world, when my honours were withered by the hand of poverty, when my blossoms appeared in the eyes of those who saw me of the most brown and wintery complexion, and, if your lordship will allow me to finish the metaphor, when I stank in their noses, it was then that your lordship remarked and distinguished me.

[10:1] Much harm has been done by rashly pressing human metaphors and analogies; such as, that Revelation is a message from God and therefore must be infallible, &c.

These Barbary streams are very deceptive, illustrating the metaphor of the book of Job, "deceitful as a brook."

He stops a metaphor like a suspected person in an enemy's country.

Let us examine this metaphor: The wall of our church and country is built of those who love the constitution in both: Our domestic enemies undermine some parts of the wall, and place themselves in the breach; and then they cry, "We are the wall!"

These are coined in moments of intense excitement, struck out at white heat, or, to follow our leading metaphor, like the speakers who use them, come upon the stump in their shirt-sleeves.

But to take this as an adequate explanation; to force the metaphor to its logical consequences, to the exclusion of every other reasonable though non-rational assent, is the commonest but most fatal form of intellectual provincialism and narrowness.

Does not Spenser gather many a metaphor from these weeds, that are most apt to grow in fattest soil?

What the mad mine's convulsive strength to thine, That wrecks a world but bids heaven's soaring steeples shine? A god that hath no earthly metaphor, A blinding word that hath no earthly rhyme, Love!

Notwithstanding this praise, however, Plato has been accused, as Longinus informs us, of being frequently hurried away as by a certain Bacchic fury of words to immoderate and unpleasant metaphors, and an allegoric magnificence of diction.

A line like this in The Haunted Palace "...I saw the tears Bleed through her eyes with the slow pain of years," indicates the strong emotional metaphor that occasionally deepens the passion of his verse.

110 With these the swan's maternal care Had sent her scarce-fledged cygnet heir: The hen (though fond and loath to part) Here lodged the darling of her heart: The spider, of mechanic kind, Aspired to science more refined: The ass learnt metaphors and tropes, But most on music fixed his hopes.

When he is content with earth in heaven itself,-when he literalises a metaphor, and with exquisite felicity finds himself arrived there in consequence of fixing his eyes on the eyes of Beatrice, then he is most celestial.

He loves such gloomy metaphors as the following:

What better metaphor do we need for the remystification of the computer?

It will conduce little to the valour, "virtus," manhood of any Englishman to be informed by any poet, even in the most melodious verse, illustrated by the most startling and pan cosmic metaphors.