Suggestion ( page 347 ).
Questions.
1. In what way does a suggestion bring a matter before the mind? 2. What is an intimation? a hint? 3. What are the special characteristics of insinuation and innuendo?
Examples.
Behold in the bloom of apples,
And the violets in the sward,
A —— of the old, lost beauty
Of the garden of the Lord!
Time is truly the comforter, at once lessening the tendency to —— of images of sorrow, and softening that very sorrow when the images arise.
An —— is cowardly because it can seldom be directly answered, and the one who makes it can always retreat behind an assumed misconstruction of his words; but the —— is the stab in the back, sneaking as it is malicious.