76 On Figurative Language. 
Of the different: sorts of words into which 
speech has been usually divided, the substan- 
tive, the adjective and the verb—and. likewise 
the adverb, when derived from any of these 
three, are obviously capable of suffering the 
foregoing transformation. Of the other parts 
of speech we at present affirm nothing: | It 
is scarcely necessary here to exhibit instances 
of each, as language, whether prose or verse, 
luxuriantly abounds in them--indeed much 
more so than is generally imagined... A few 
promiscuous examples; nevertheless, may not 
be deemed improper. 
Patet isti janua letho.—Virc. 
Dulcia \inquimus arva.—Zd. 
Corydon ardebat Alexim.—Id. 
O et columen et dulce decus meum.—Hor. 
Tu, cum te de curriculo petitionis deflexisses, &c. 
3 Cic. pro Muren. 
Sed himen; Servi, quam te securim putas tyecisse petition: 
tute, &e, oxi Id. 
Smit with the love of sacred song.—Miutt. 
The full blazing sun, 
Which now sat high in his meridian tower.—Id. 
And the moon 
Riding i in her highest noon. —Ia. 
Now jis the winter of our discontent, 
Made glorious summer ‘by this sun 1 of York, 
Andall the clouds that lowerel ‘pon Bur house, 
In the deep bosoin of the ocean buried. —SuakEsPEARE. 
