Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Soame Jenyns

Burns, like some absent and impatient youth, to join the object of his warm desire.

Your dancing, like true wit, is best express’d
By nature only to advantage dress’d;
’Tis not a nimble bound, or a caper high,
That can pretend to please a curious eye.
Good judges no such tumblers’ tricks regard;
Or think them beautiful, because they’re hard.

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