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40 of his comparisons is wondrous: like follows like in no homœopatihic dose. For instance, take some lines in a angle page (48):Or again, in another single page (61):The splendid-mooned and jewelled night is said to upriseThe moon,In almost a erase for similitudes—for he would have nothing in his book but "doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange"—Mr. Smith occasionally lights on one somewhat "saucy and overbold." A lover, rhapsodising about his queenly maiden fair, tells howand was very properly refused admittance, being so indecently overcome (with honey of course). A gentleman in the dumps is seen with a misery perchedThere are "spirits that walk time, like the travelling sun, with sunset glories girt around his loins." What are we to say of such expressions as "the unlashed eye of God"—love "sitting like an angel on the heart"—verse "but relieves me as a six-inch pipe relieves the dropsied sea?" Not unfrequently we meet with an arrangement of words hovering curiously on the absurd: thus, in a tender love-scene, the braw wooer, describing the insidious process of an incipient embrace, says,possibly with a collision that ensured head-ache for the rest of the day. He informs us, too, in his lofty fashion, that