Came down in slanting lines,
And wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines.—Mulock.
Men not only want a competency, but they want a ten-story competency; then they want religion as a lightning rod to ward off the bolts of divine judgment.—Beecher.
As the river is swollen by the melting snows of spring and runs with greater force and volume, so, when he is aroused, his thoughts and words pour forth impetuously, and he exhibits the strength and majesty of the most commanding eloquence.
Examples of Faulty Illustrations.
Peace has poured oil on the troubled waters, and they blossom like the rose.
She has come down among us in her floating robes, bearing the olive-branch in her beak.
The American eagle broods over his nest in the rocky fastnesses, and his young shall lie down with the lamb.
We have gone through the floods, and have turned their hot ploughshares into pruning-hooks.