_Streets, house,
colored, thunder_, and _scorched_ are not, then, used here in their
first and ordinary meaning, but in a secondary and figurative sense.
These words we call +Metaphors+. By what they denote and by what they
only suggest they lend clearness, vividness, and force to the thought
they help to convey, and add beauty to the expression.
For further treatment of metaphors and other figures of speech, see
pages 87, 136, 155, 156, 165, and Lesson 150.]
2. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators.--_Gibbon_.
3. The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and
every town or city.--_Holmes_.
4. The arrogant Spartan, with a French-like glorification, boasted forever
of little Thermopylae.--_De Quincey_.
5. The purest act of knowledge is always colored by some feeling of
pleasure or pain.--_Hamilton_.
6. The thunder of the great London journals reverberates through every
clime.--_Marsh_.
7. The cheeks of William the Testy were scorched into a dusky red by two
fiery little gray eyes.--_Irving_.
8. The study of natural science goes hand in hand with the culture of the
imagination.--_Tyndall_. [Footnote: _Hand in hand_ may be treated as one
adverb, or _with_ may be supplied.
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