Gray writes, "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil." The figure at work in "Ambition mock" is:

Bulwer-Lytton writes, "The pen is mightier than the sword." The substitutions in "pen" and "sword" are chiefly:

Dickens writes in Hard Times of "so many hundred Hands in this Mill." Calling the workers "Hands" is:

Donne opens, "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful." Treating Death as proud is:

In Julius Caesar, Antony says, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." The word "ears" works as:

Shirley's "Death the Leveller" says, "Scepter and Crown / Must tumble down." The substitution in "Scepter and Crown" is:

Keats writes, "And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips / Bidding adieu." Giving Joy a hand and gesture is:

In "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," the head and crown stand in for a ruler. The substitution presses attention onto:

When Antony asks the crowd to "lend me your ears," the substituted term stands for:

Dickens's "so many hundred Hands in this Mill" substitutes "Hands" for workers in order to emphasize:

In "Scepter and Crown / Must tumble down," the royal objects stand for:

Goldsmith writes, "The village all declared how much he knew." Here "the village" stands for:

Macbeth says, "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown." The crown stands for kingship, and "fruitless" emphasizes:

Dickinson writes, "Because I could not stop for Death - / He kindly stopped for me." Making Death a courteous visitor:

Wordsworth writes, "The waves beside them danced; but they / Out-did the sparkling waves in glee." Personifying the waves:

Gray writes, "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil." Personifying Ambition as mocking:

Keats writes, "When old age shall this generation waste, / Thou shalt remain." Personifying old age as wasting a generation:

Donne says, "Death, be not proud." Giving Death pride allows the speaker to:

Shelley calls the West Wind "Destroyer and preserver." That personification:

Dickens writes of "so many hundred Hands in this Mill," while Gray writes of "the short and simple annals of the poor." The Dickens phrase differs in that it:

Antony's "lend me your ears" and Shirley's "Scepter and Crown / Must tumble down" both substitute terms. Antony's phrase differs because it:

Macbeth says "a fruitless crown"; Sonnet 18 says, "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see." The sonnet's "eyes" differs because it:

Goldsmith's "The village all declared" and Antony's "lend me your ears" both substitute. Goldsmith's phrase differs because it:

Bulwer-Lytton's "pen" and "sword" differ from Dickens's "Hands" because they:

Gray's "the short and simple annals of the poor" and Sonnet 18's "eyes can see" both substitute. Gray's phrase differs because it: