Samuel Taylor Coleridge — 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.