———— Or have ye chosen this place,
After the toils of battle, to repose
Your weary’d virtue?
Paradise Lost.
Verdure for a green field. Summer. l. 301.
Speaking of cranes:
To pigmy nations wounds and death they bring,
And all the war descends upon the wing.
Iliad iii. 10.
Cool age advances venerably wise.
Iliad iii. 149.
The peculiar beauty of this figure arises from suggesting an attribute that embellishes the subject, or puts it in a stronger light.
6. A complex term employ’d figuratively to denote one of the component parts.
Funus for a dead body. Burial for a grave.
7. The name of one of the component parts instead of the complex term.
Tœda for a marriage. The East for a country situated east from us. Jovis vestigia servat, for imitating Jupiter in general.
8. A word signifying time or place employ’d figuratively to denote a connected subject.