The hugeness of the sea
Being half in love and half terrified of the sea, I also have to suppress the thought of its vastness...
Fortune’s favour
This reminds me of an anonymous Elizabethan verse which I cite from memory:
'Lift up thy heart and courage...
Like a surgeon’s knife
Adam Bede is so far from being like a timid woman that this is striking, and Eliot uses the idea...
Hag-ridden night
A sense of a wakeful, traumatic night, ridden by witches and haunted by demons.
'... explains the distress of that...
The cow looked at me looking at the cow
Having done this a number of times, I smiled when I read Dorothy's dilemma in passing the cow. They have...
The fermentation of fear
A great metaphor for the way fear can bubble and multiply, bringing to the surface appalling images. What's the antidote? ...
A well of terror
In this convincing tale of a urban lions, Hoban manages to capture the grip of fear, both as a serpent...
Marrow-freezing
Jane Eyre, first as a child and later as a woman, is subjected to a number of 'marrow-freezing incidents' some...
An island is loyal
Having a poetic love of the sea and a practical fear of it, the presence and faithfulness of land resonates. ...
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