Show I Disraelis Picturesque Metaphor Fow men had n richer talent for vivid picturesque metaphor than Disraeli Dis-raeli Often no doubt it was bizarre and sometimes even tawdry but it seldom sel-dom descended to tho cheap And what could be more vivid than the figure by which ho pictured one of tho Qladstonlnn Ministries Tho Min isters remind me of one of these marine ma-rine landscapes not very unusual on tho coast of South America You behold be-hold a range of exhausted volcanoes Not a flamo flickers on a single pallid crest But the situation is still dangerous dan-gerous There aro occasional earthquakes earth-quakes and ever and anon tho dark rumbling of the sea |