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

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

Soame Jenyns


Burns, like some absent and impatient youth, to join the object of his warm desire.	1
Your dancing, like true wit, is best express’d By nature only to advantage dress’d; ’Tis not a nimble bound, or a caper high, That can pretend to please a curious eye. Good judges no such tumblers’ tricks regard; Or think them beautiful, because they’re hard.	2