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Show Disraeli's Picturesque Metaphor. Few 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 whnt could be more vivid than the figure by which ho pictured ono of tho Olndstonlan Ministries: "The Ministers Min-isters romlnd mo of one of these marine ma-rine landscapes not very unusual on tho coast of South America. You bo-hold bo-hold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a slnglo pallid crest. Dut tho situation Is still dangerous. dan-gerous. Thero arc occasional earthquakes, earth-quakes, and over and anon the dark rumbling of tho sea." |