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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Metaphor

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Figured and metaphorical expressions do well to illustrate more abstruse and unfamiliar ideas, which the mind is not yet thoroughly accustomed to.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.