“Her voice is but the shadow of a sound.” (Young.)
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.” (Pope.)
“Some true, some light, but every one of them
Stamped with the image of the king.” (Tennyson compares Arthur’s Knights with coins.)
“Hair in heaps lay heavily
Over a pale brow spirit-pure—
Carved like the heart of the coal-black tree,
Crisped like a war-steed’s enclosure.” (Browning describes a lady’s hair.)
“What says the body when they spring