(a) “Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.”—Wordsworth.
(b) “What is hope?—a smiling rainbow children follow through the wet.”—Carlyle.
(c) “She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.”—Shakespeare.
(d) “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive; but to be young was very heaven.”—Wordsworth.
(e) “Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the night.”—Beecher.
Oral Exercise.—Examine the phrases that you made by finding adjectives to fit abstract qualities ([p. 202]), and decide in each case whether clearness or force is the chief resulting characteristic.
Oral Exercise.—Restore force to the following figures by changing whatever is incongruous in them. Reject any that are irretrievably bad in taste, or hackneyed.
1. The singing was led by the organ assisted by four violins.
2. In graceful and figurative language he pointed the finger of scorn at the defendant.