Walter Pater Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Walter Pater


A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident ranks with us for something more than its independent value.	1
Ineradicable, like some persistent vegetable growth, because its seed is an element of the very soil out of which it springs.	2
Opinions!—they are like the clothes we wear, which warm us, not with their heat, but with ours.	3