"Trope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the grove. He lived there for forty-nine days, we are told, under the great fig-tree by the river. And the fig-tree has become sacred for ever because he sat there and because there he found the truth. We are told of it all in wonderful trope and imagery—of his last fight over ...
— The Soul of a People • H. Fielding
... forest, le jouet de Zephire, O premier j'accorday les langues de ma lyre, O premier j'entendi les flches resonner D'Apollon, qui me vint tout le coeur estonner; O premier admirant la belle Calliope, Je devins amoureux de sa neuvaine trope, Quand sa main sur le front cent roses me jetta, Et de ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... by the statement of truth in a trope, and the will by clothing the laws of life in illusions. But the unities of Truth and of Right are not broken by the disguise. There need never be any confusion in these. In a crowded life of many parts and performers, on a stage of nations, or in the obscurest hamlet in Maine or California, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... flattering eye—not as a pudding, not as a case of confectionery even, but as a little sanctuary of images such as a pious heathen might make of his earthenware gods. Let us be serious: listen. The thing is Criticism; but some of it is criticism by trope and figure. I hope ...
— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett
... days, if a metaphor started up, the poor thing was coursed up hill and down dale, and torn limb from jacket; even in Parliament, a trope was sometimes hunted from one ...
— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade
... to a certain extent, a poet. We are such imaginative creatures, that nothing so works on the human mind, barbarous or civil, as a trope. Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact, which they can detach, and so completely master in thought. It is a wonderful aid to the memory, which carries away ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various
... asking, "how the lady was to be considered a saint, and how the camels were to be laid upon the altar?" With greater pungency, Sheridan defended himself by saying, "This is the first time in my life that I ever heard of special pleading on a metaphor, or a bill of indictment against a trope; but such is the turn of the learned gentleman's mind, that when he attempts to be humorous no jest can be found, and when serious no fact is visible."[31] To the last Law delighted to point the absurdities of orators who in aiming at the sublime only achieved the ridiculous. ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson |
