eep from using them. As stars flash into light,
so he flashes into metaphor, metonymy, trope, personification, or
simile. Because he sees everything, is he fertile in suggestion, and
his comparisons are numerous as his thoughts. See how his figures
multiply as you have seen foam-caps multiply on waves when the wind
rises on the sea!

"We burn daylight."

"Nay, the world 's my oyster,
Which I with sword shall open."

"I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted."

"My library
Was dukedom large enough."

"Into the eye and prospect of his soul."

"Make a swan-like end,
Fading in music."

"Those blessed candles of the night."

"The schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining, morning face."

"Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores."

"He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines."

"And must I ravel out
My weaved-up follies?"

"Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me
To this submission."

"The gaudy, babbling, and remorseless day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea."

"There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out."

"He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day for melting charity."

"That daffed the world aside,
And bid it pass."

"He is come to ope
The purple testament of bleeding war."

"She sat, like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief."

"That strain again; it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odor."

"For courage mounts with occasion."

"Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne; bid kings come bow to it."

"Death's dateless night."

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

"The tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony."

"Falstaff sweats to death,
And lards the lean earth as he walks along."

"I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die."

"'T is better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than be perked up in glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow."

"An old man broken with the storms of state."

"Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye."

"Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops."

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