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Show Dlsrae.l's Picturesque Metaphor. Few men had a richer talent for vivid iilcturejquo metaphor than Disraeli. Dis-raeli. Often, no doubt, it wns bizarre, nnd sometimes even tawdry, but It seldom sel-dom descended to tho cheap. And whn could he moro vivid thnn tho figure by which he pictured one of the Glndstonlan Ministries: "The Ministers Min-isters remind me of ono of these marine ma-rine lnndsccpes not very unusual on tho coast of South Amerlra. You behold be-hold n range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flnmo nickers on a single pallid crest. But tho situation Is still dnn-gcrous. dnn-gcrous. There nre occasional earth-qunkes, earth-qunkes, and cer nnd anon tho dark rumbling of the sea." |