if you had had the advantage of being "the freshest modern" instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor,—that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?
There must have been something terrible in his face, for suddenly they all burst out into loud cries and lamentation.
Face the past with the least lamentation, face present with the least waste and with the most dream to face future.
An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation, and demanded what reward she would give him, if he would take her aloft, and float her in the air.
But the people in the house had heard the lamentation of the unknown maiden, and told the bridegroom about it.
In a certain country there was once great lamentation over a wild boar that laid waste the farmer's fields, killed the cattle, and ripped up people's bodies with his tusks.
There was a great lamentation, for no one expected John to succeed better than those who had been suitors before.
