The Hyperbole, or impossible.
For instance, of a Lion.
He roar'd so loud, and look'd so wond'rous grim,
His very shadow durst not follow him[1].
Of a Lady at Dinner.
The silver whiteness that adorns thy neck,
Sullies the plate and makes the napkin black.
Of the same.
The obscureness of her birth
Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes,
Which make her all one light[2].
Of a Bull-baiting.
Up to the stars the sprawling mastives fly,
And add new monsters[3] to the frighted sky.
Of a Scene of Misery.
Behold a scene of misery and woe!
Here Argus soon might weep himself quite blind,
Ev'n tho' he had Briareus' hundred hands
To wipe his hundred eyes[4] ——
And that modest request of two absent lovers:
Ye gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.
2. The Periphrasis, which the moderns call the circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and shall again in the twelfth.
To the same class of the magnifying may be referred the following, which are so excellently modern, that
