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Origin of Language, forcibly illustrates the figurative character of much of our ordinary every-day speech. He says,--
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The continual metaphors by which we compare our thoughts and emotions to the changes of the outer world--sadness to a cloudy sky, calm to the silvery rays of the moonlight, anger to waves agitated by the wind--are not, as Schelling observed, a mere play of the imagination, but are an expression, in two different languages, of the same thought of the Creator, and one serves to interpret the other. 'Nature is visible spirit, spirit invisible nature.'
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Old Stowe, in his
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Annals, speaking of this shipwreck, among other things, says these islands
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One of Shakspere's commentators, referring to this passage, says,--
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This account by old Stowe of the elemental growth and generation of the hags and imps and devils and abortions of the island, is fearfully fine. Caliban and Sycorax and Setebos, might well be imagined to have first glared into life through the long fermenting incantation of 'accustomed monstrous thunder.' Ruskin says
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We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.