A Dictionary of SimilesLittle, Brown,, 1916 - 488 Seiten |
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ANON BALZAC BAYARD TAYLOR BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty bird Black breath Bright BUCHANAN READ BULWER-LYTTON BURNE BYRON C. G. ROSSETTI Calm CARLYLE cheek cloud continued D. G. ROSSETTI dark dead DICKENS doth dream DRYDEN DUMAS E. B. BROWNING ELIZA COOK eyes Fade Fair fire flame flower Fresh GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE MEREDITH GERALD MASSEY gleam glow heart heaven HENRY HOOD HUGO IBID JAMES MONTGOMERY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY JOHN JOSEPH CONRAD KEATS KIPLING leaf light lips LONGFELLOW LYLY moon morning night O. W. HOLMES o'er OLD TESTAMENT OUIDA P. J. BAILEY Pale PÈRE PROVERB Pure R. D. BLACKMORE rain RICHARD LE GALLIENNE ROBERT BROWNING ROBERT BURTON rose SAMUEL shadow SHAKE SHAKESPEARE SHELLEY Shine Silent similes sleep smile snow Soft soul SOUTHEY SPEARE spring stars storm summer Sweet Swift SWINBURNE TENNYSON THOMAS MOORE tree Trembling Vanished wave White WHITTIER wild WILLIAM wind wings WORDSWORTH ΑΝΟΝ
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Seite 254 - Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are ; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew ; Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The spring entombed in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot ; The flight is past — and man forgot.
Seite 458 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders. This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me.
Seite 199 - A Birthday MY heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot ; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.
Seite 264 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful...
Seite xiv - But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, — then melts forever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide ; — The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o...
Seite 299 - Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind...
Seite 263 - The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Seite 159 - ... those foundlings of Fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted, and floated to the surface of the polluted stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination.
Seite 422 - THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies ; but in life it doth much mischief ; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury.
Seite 116 - For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare : so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.