I will not waste time in criticising the bad English or the mixture of metaphor in these sentences, but will simply cite another from the same author which is even worse.
It is a metaphor derived probably from mulling wine, and the word itself must be a corruption of mell, from O.
Every thing relating to Jeremiah shows him to have been a man of an equivocal character: in his metaphor of the potter and the clay, (ch.
A great deal of the metaphor and of the sentiment is obscure, most probably by translation; but enough is left to show they were strongly pointed in the original.
To this it is, that metaphorical Expressions, when selected with Judgment, owe their Beauty, and their Elegance; every Metaphor being a short Description.
But Goodwin's reader has read and re- read the great chapter, and has not yet discovered where the metaphor and the allegory came in and where they went out.
In the beginning of his chapter on 'Speaking peace,' Thomas Goodwin tells his reader that he is going to fully couch all his intendments under a metaphor and an allegory.
In several passages, the word Dog is employed as a metaphor for scoffers, or unclean persons, or sometimes for those who did not belong to the Church, whether Jewish or Christian.
The recollection of such scenes would necessarily dwell in the memory of those who had taken part in them, and cause the metaphor to impress itself strongly upon them.
Jesus employs the same metaphor when speaking to the Canaanitish woman who had come to ask him to heal her daughter: "It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs.
We will now turn to the metaphor of the Camel and the needle's eye.
This galling nature of the yoke, so familiar to the Israelites, is used repeatedly as a metaphor in many passages of the Old and New Testaments.
This metaphor was far more effective in Palestine, and at that time, than it is in this country and at the present day.
This is the species from whose deliberate and slow movements the familiar metaphor of "slow as a Tortoise" was derived, and it is this species which is the hero of the popular fable of the "Hare and the Tortoise.
By degrees the chariot came to be one of the recognised forces in war, and we find it mentioned throughout the books of the Scriptures, not only in its literal sense, but as a metaphorwhich every one could understand.
The same metaphor is recorded in the second book of the same writer.
The references which are made to the last-mentioned subject are in no case of a scientific nature, but are always employed by way of metaphor or simile, as the reader must have seen in the previous pages.
We might expect that several of the prophets, especially Isaiah, the great sacred poet, who drew so many of his images from natural objects, would have found in the song of birds some metaphor expressive of sweetness or joy.
We use both the metaphor and the simile quite frequently and naturally in our ordinary speech and writing, particularly when our feelings are aroused in any way.
A phase, a fancy, a metaphor may or may not have been born of eastern or southern elements, but he was, without any question at all, an Englishman of the middle class.
They are masters of a gallant art of metaphor which belittles the most appalling horrors of trench warfare; masters, too, of the art of extracting humorous relief from the most trivial incidents.
Almost all is metaphor and comparison, or is practical advice and warning, or is enthusiastic praise, or is maliciousness, but among a hundred hardly one contains psychology.
Often we hardly know whether a psychological observation or a metaphor is given to us.
A metaphor may be a simple affirmation of what an object is, or it may embrace “the agent, the act, the object, and the effect of an action.
Indeed it is best expressed in a metaphor used by the writer herself about the topic itself; the metaphor of the colour red in its relation to other colours.
Hence, perhaps, the peculiar metaphor which we have now to explain.
Take the twenty-third Psalm, and you have the metaphorworked out in the sweetest form of pastoral song: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
I think, too, that the coming of these Greeks somewhat led the Saviour to use the metaphor of the buried corn.
For purposes of description a metaphor is at best a clumsy device.
I am forced to think that the visual field in particular is a thoroughly vicious metaphor when employed to body forth the distinction of focus and margin.
But since you follow the metaphor so close, I will suppose, if an advocate be entertained, some recompense must be given him.
Isa 53:1) When the prophet speaks of the saved under this metaphor of gleaning, how doth he amplify the matter?
Metaphor and trope and figure are exhausted in the endeavor of the apostle to set forth this sublime truth.
This wild fable is a metaphor of the truth; the beginning of all evil lies in the alienation of the spirit of man from God, in the divorce of earth from heaven; here is the final reason why the face of humanity is wet with tears.
As an illustration of the ludicrous consequences of unbridled indulgence in metaphor and simile, I quote the following extract (not, however, the work of a woman) from a serious and justly respected newspaper.
Footnote: The most beautiful instance of mixed metaphor I have ever seen occurred in a solicitor's letter, brought to my notice by the clerk to whom it was dictated.
It was popularly believed that Petre had avowed this intention in a coarse metaphor borrowed from the rhetoric of the East.
Schiff is used in the sense of nave, though the metaphor is variously explained.
Few people who use this metaphor know that ship is here the dialect pronunciation of sheep; cf.
The archaic verb to cozen is a metaphor of quite another kind.
Roster (roaster) is the Dutch for gridiron, the allusion being to the parallel lines of the list or plan; for a somewhat similar metaphor cf.
A curious agricultural metaphor which, though of Old French origin, now appears to be peculiar to English, is to rehearse, lit.
English in its proper sense of "teasing" hemp or flax, and the metaphor is exactly the same.
The converse process of people being nicknamed from animals is also common and themetaphor is usually pretty obvious.
In some cases the reason for a metaphoris not quite clear to the modern mind.
The metaphor is a bolder and more lively figure than the simile.
It is more like a picture and hence, the graphic use of metaphor is called "word-painting.
If one of his characters draws a metaphor from pie-crust, he must needs use language of the churchyard: You speak as if a man Should know what fowl is coffined in a baked meat Afore you cut it open.
The plot of the tragedy is developed in this scene; Vittoria suggesting, under the metaphor of a dream, that her lover should compass the deaths of his duchess and her husband.
In like manner St. John, when foreshowing the final establishment of true Christianity, uses the samemetaphor of a city and a bride, that had been previously used by Isaiah.
To these does the prophet refer, representing them by this beautiful metaphor of the two staves.
Both Isaiah and St. John, in speaking of the New Jerusalem, use the two-fold metaphor of a City and a Woman.
Her name means she who causes to cross, that is who saves, life and its troubles being by a common metaphor described as a sea.
The broken metaphor and bad logic of motive which had stirred his hearer's contempt were quite consistent with a mode of putting the facts which made it difficult for Lydgate to vent his own indignation and disappointment.
