| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Metaphor |
| | | Figured and metaphorical expressions do well to illustrate more abstruse and unfamiliar ideas, which the mind is not yet thoroughly accustomed to. Locke. | 1 |
| An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. Johnson. | 2 |
| Metaphor gives light and strength to description. John Brent. | 3 |
| Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. Lowell. | 4 |
| Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. Whately. | 5 | | |
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