Upon my faith as a Christian, if no more is meant by being born again than this, the speaker must have had the strongest taste in metaphors of any teacher in verse or prose on record, Jacob Behmen himself not excepted.
Metaphors are sorry logic, especially metaphors from human and those too conventional usages to the ordinances of eternal wisdom.
Footnote 151: I have not attempted to order this marvellous confusion of metaphors so characteristic of The Nights and the exigencies of Al-Saj'a=rhymed prose.
His frequent speaking in metaphors can be appreciated by the following exchange, which uses language emeshed in symbols.
Miss Sadler was not much interested in the figures and metaphors of political compositions.
In the former part of the 'Age of Reason,' I have said that the word prophet was the Bible-word for poet, and that the flights and metaphors of Jewish poets have been foolishly erected into what are now called prophecies.
For the metaphors are so beautifully and completely presented to the mind that it retains them as having as real and physical an existence as the facts.
Interior meaning Metaphors abound in the Bible, and names are often expressive of spiritual ideas.
The student of this great poem will very soon discover that within sometimes homeliest metaphors there is folded a long process of uncommon thought on the every-day facts of our mysterious existence.
Wonderful are the things that are to be done by the help of metaphors and similitudes!
For," say they, "did not our blessed Saviour himself use many metaphors and many parables?
Line: 1112 The metaphors as well as the bloods are something mixed: but again, why not?
My text defeats your art, ties Nature's tongue, Scorns all her tinselled metaphors of pelf, Illustrated by nothing but herself.
Shakespeare breaks his metaphors often, and in this desultory speech there was less need of preserving them.
Nay, if the mixture of metaphors be not offensive to thy fastidious rhetoric, these brethren are sent down into Egypt to procure corn for thee and thy little ones, O Reader!
With these spectacles both St. Paul and his beloved Timothy must have been well acquainted, and in the writings of the former no metaphors are more frequent than those drawn from the Grecian games.
The metaphors and similes are somewhat too abundant.
Some of his metaphors are droll: after long pondering on the scheme of creation, he comes to the conclusion that earth is the field, heaven the house, and hell the "midden.
We may remember also that the one thing necessary in a primitive society is food, and that primitive metaphors would naturally be, to a large extent, metaphors drawn from the preparing and obtaining of food, from cooking and hunting.
At the same time, the vivid and lightning figures of the Psalms, sweeping over the insipid metaphors of the rhetoric which encumbered his memory, awoke in the depths of him his wild African imagination and sent him soaring.
The metaphors and language of Euphuism, compounded of the natural history and mythology of the classics, were doubtless a necessity also that something might be poured into the emptiness.
Now to the classic mind violent and improper metaphors were abhorrent.
Its essential success consists in fusing ideas in charming sounds or in metaphorsthat shine by their own brilliance.
The expression of habit in psychic metaphors is a procedure known also to theology.
Criticism will tend to clear the world of such poetic distortion; and what vestiges of it may linger will be avowed fables, metaphors employed merely in conventional expression.
The only function those traditional metaphors have is to shield confusion and sentimentality.
Language acquires scope in the same way, by its kindly infidelities; its metaphors and syntax lend experience perspective.
The passage relating to Macaulay begins with the lines--"Then the favourite comes with his trumpets and drums, And his arms and his metaphors crossed.
The speech of Whitman is English, and his metaphors and catch-words are apparently American, but the emotional content is cosmic.
He therefore resorted to metaphors which could by no chance be taken literally.
Can you find any metaphors or antitheses in the model?
This hymn of Josiah Conder, copying the physical metaphors of the 6th of John, is still occasionally used at the Lord's Supper.
And naturally the memory of his almost shipwreck on the wild Atlantic colored more or less the visions of his muse, and influenced the metaphors of his verse for years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metaphors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
