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

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

Charles Lamb


Drop, like mellow fruit … into the grave.	1
Dried like a raisin.	2
Eat like maggots into an estate.	3
Spend vows as fast as vapors, which go off Even with the fumes.	4
Forgotten like an antique tale Of Hero and Leander.	5
Lolling, like one indifferent, fabricates a heaven of gold.	6
The mind of man is like the sea, which is neither agreeable to the beholder nor the voyager, in a calm or in a storm, but is so to both when a little agitated by gentle gales; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions or affections.	7
Renewable, as some appetites are.	8
Rest, Like beauty nestling in a young man’s breast.	9
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture,—like a schoolboy’s holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.	10
He strove to clothe his agony in smiles, Which he would force up in his poor pale cheeks, Like ill-timed guests that had no proper dwelling there.	11
Squeak like a Bart’lemew fiddle.	12
White, like the apparition of a dead rainbow.	13