Hippolyte Adolphe Taine Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine


A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.	1
Our inborn human imperfection is part of the order of things, like the constant deformation of the petal in the plant.	2
Man, like everything else that lives, changes with the air that sustains him.	3