So at least I read the allegory.

To be like him Phineas must write an allegory; and such an allegory!

The next visions are those of the Seven Deadly Sins, allegorical figures, but powerful as those of Pilgrim's Progress, making the allegories of the Romaunt of the Rose seem like shadows in comparison.

In his Euphues Lyly did use such "allegories" in what his contemporaries generally considered a poem.

Many have thought so; even Homer has been accused of constructing allegories.

Popular error respecting the Indian character and historyRemarkable superstitionTheodoricA missionary choosing a wild flowerPiety and moneyA fiscal collapse in MichiganMission of Grand TraverseSimplicity of the school-girl's hopesSingular theory of the Indians respecting story-tellingOldest allegory on recordPolitical aspectsSeneca treatyMineralogyFarming and mission station on Lake Michigan.

We find a touching allegory in the Talmud.

Thus Phineas Fletchera cousin of the dramatistcomposed a long Spenserian allegory, the Purple Island, descriptive of the human body.

The times of Virgil please me better, because he had an Augustus for his patron; and, to draw the allegory nearer you, I am sure I shall not want a Maecenas with him.

They both start with the supposition that religion must be the truth; and while the former prove that it is not, the latter obstinately maintain that it is; or rather the former cut up and dress the allegory in such a way that it could be true in sensu proprio but would in that case become a platitude.

The passages which it is most difficult to defend, are those in which he altogether drops the allegory, and puts into the mouth of his pilgrims religious ejaculations and disquisitions, better suited to his own pulpit at Bedford or Reading, than to the Enchanted Ground or the Interpreter's Garden.

Who but an addle-headed sot would have wandered up and down the lanes, like Morland, chalking out pigs and milkmaids, when he might have been painting, like Barry, pictures, by the acre, of gods and goddesses enacting incomprehensible allegories!

The systems of the East and of the North, of Egypt and of China, would have illustrated the Greek and Roman fables, have cleared up their difficulties, and explained their allegories.

Where the Children are merely embracing each other, or sporting at the feet of the Virgin, or playing with the cross, or with a bird, or with the lamb, or with flowers, we might call the treatment domestic or poetical; but where St. John is taking the cross from the hand of Christ, it is clear, from the perpetual repetition of the theme, that it is intended to express a religious allegory.

In his heart Tennyson's attitude to the ideals of chivalry and the old stories in which they are embodied differed probably very little from that of Roger Ascham, or of any other Protestant Englishman; when he endeavoured to make an epic of them and to fasten to it an allegory in which Arthur should typify the war of soul against sense, what happened was only what might have been expected.

[Footnote 52: An allegory of the Active and Contemplative Life;not, I think, a happy one, though beautifully painted.

The two females, as they held each a hand of Ilbrahim, formed a practical allegory; it was rational piety and unbridled fanaticism contending for the empire of a young heart.

Wilson recommended the Proverbs of Heywood as furnishing "allegories" useful in the amplification of a point in a speech.

One gave us the only epic since Beowulf; the other gave us our only great allegory, which has been read more than any other book in our language save the Bible.

" On a recent trip to Germany, Doctor Harvey Wiley, the pure-food expert, heard an allegory with reference to the subject of food adulteration which, he contends, should cause Americans to congratulate themselves that things are so well ordered in this respect in the United States.

But I am inclined to think that she is illustrating an allegory by a thought, rather than a thought by an allegory.

If OSCAR intended an allegory, the finish is dreadfully wrong.

It is superfluous to say that the spectator must invent for himself the allegory which he may choose to see embodied in this stony trio.

It seemed to Colonel Musgrave almost an allegory.

Frankly I do not knowtoo neat an allegory to be true, perhapsand yet there was something of this in it.