work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 3682,Mind's Eye,HDIS (Drama); Found again reading Kames's Elements of Criticism (122),2004-01-18 00:00:00 UTC,"PHYSICIAN
Sir, to conclude, the place you fill, has more than amply exacted the Talents of a wary Pilot, and all these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.

BAYES
Pray mark that Allegory. Is not that good?

JOHNSON
Yes; that grasping of a storm with the eye is admirable.

PHYSICIAN
But yet some rumours great are stirring; and if Lorenzo should prove false, (as none but the great Gods can tell) you then perhaps would find, that--

(Act II, Scene I)",,9546,"•INTEREST. Kames cites in his Elements of Criticism (122) as an example of ""faulty metaphors"" ""pleasantly ridiculed."" Notice the use of ""Allegory"" in the passage.","""[A]ll these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.""",Eye,2010-01-19 04:14:56 UTC,"Act II, scene I"