Association of Ideas

       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspI.—By Likeness



Fond, peevish, wedded pair! why all this rant?

O guard your tempers! hedge your tongues about

This empty head should warn you on that point—

The teeth were quarrelsome, and so fell out.

S. T. C.



       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspII.—Association by Contrast



Phidias changed marble into feet and legs.

Disease! vile anti-Phidias! thou, i' fegs!

Hast turned my live limbs into marble pegs.



       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspIII.—Association by Time



       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspSIMPLICIUS SNIPKIN loquitur



I touch this scar upon my skull behind,

And instantly there rises in my mind

Napoleon's mighty hosts from Moscow lost,

Driven forth to perish in the fangs of Frost.[985]

For in that self-same month, and self-same day,

Down Skinner Street I took my hasty way—

Mischief and Frost had set the boys at play;

I stept upon a slide—oh! treacherous tread!—

Fell smash with bottom bruised, and brake my head!

Thus Time's co-presence links the great and small,

Napoleon's overthrow, and Snipkin's fall.