Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Style
Our style should be like a skeine of silke, to be carried and found by the right thred, not ravel’d and perplex’d; then all is a knot, a heape.
—Ben Jonson
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.
—Richard Porson