What quality do you think they impart to
one's style?]
8. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.--
_Longfellow_.
9. Things mean, the Thistle, the Leek, the Broom of the Plantagenets,
become noble by association.--_F. W. Robertson_.
10. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the night.--
_Beecher_.
11. In that calm Syrian afternoon, memory, a pensive Ruth, went gleaning
the silent fields of childhood, and found the scattered grain still
golden, and the morning sunlight fresh and fair.--_Curtis_. [Footnote:
In _Ruth_ of this sentence, we have a type of the metaphor called
+Personification+--a figure in which things are raised above their
proper plane, taken up toward or to that of persons. Things take on
dignity and importance as they rise in the scale of being.
Note, moreover, that in this instance of the figure we have an
+Allusion+. All the interest that the Ruth of the Bible awakens in us
this allusion gathers about so common a thing as memory.]
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LESSON 48.
MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN REVIEW.
Analysis.
1. By means of steam man realizes the fable of Aeolus's bag, and carries
the two-and-thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.
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