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Excerpt from Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Vol. 2
As Mr. Wendell P. Garrison acutely pointed out, a marked trait of Mr. Godkin's talent for humorous representation was his visualizing faculty. Lifeless phrases got into motion, under his imaginative eye. A conventional figure of speech, he would clothe with ¿esh and blood, and make active. The thing behind the word he saw; and many of his ¿ashes of wit and comic ingenuities came from his really seeing an action in all its phases and implications. Thus at a time of great excitement in Wall Street, it was alleged that a prominent money-lender was laying down on his privileges. To Mr. Godkin, the phrase was instinct with life. He instantly remarked, Anyhow, if he did not lay down, he was making all the movements of a dog before he does.
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