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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Richard Porson

Gibbon’s style is too uniform; he writes in the same flowing and pompous style on every subject. He is like Christie, the auctioneer, who says as much of a ribbon as of a Raphael.