Читать книгу A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies - Mrs. (Anna) Jameson - Страница 36

It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia, that “speech was like cloth of arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but in packs” (i.e. rolled up or packed up). Dryden had evidently this passage in his mind when he wrote those beautiful lines:

“Speech is the light, the morning of the mind; It spreads the beauteous images abroad, Which else lie furled and shrouded in the soul.”

Here the comparison of Themistocles, happy in itself, is expanded into a vivid poetical image.