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  • Though your poem is allegory, I believe that it has helped many of us to better understand the hardships you have faced since Saphira's egg appeared to you, for which we are, in no small way, responsible.†   (source)
  • To disguise the true story as fiction or allegory.†   (source)
  • He had talentsof irony, allegory, and fable that he could adapt with great skill to the promotion of moral and political truth.†   (source)
  • Reading it now, the allegory seemed obvious and clumsy.†   (source)
  • When I read about those solitary leviathans, I feared I had stumbled on an allegory of my own life, that I would spend my life unable to make a connection, unable to find someone attracted by the beauty and urgency of my song.†   (source)
  • Medical Allegory†   (source)
  • This might not be a problem, were it not for the Tiber being located a stone's throw from the Capitol Building, that beautiful unfinished idea that towers above the city like an allegory for the nation itself.†   (source)
  • He, of all people, trapped in an allegory!†   (source)
  • The answers following the questions, which now came from all of them, grew longer and longer, for they became parables, examples, allegories.†   (source)
  • Those few who did know the truth kept it hidden behind a veil of symbols, legends, and allegory.†   (source)
  • "What is not an allegory," said the Count, "is my appointment with an eminent professor.†   (source)
  • They claim the Grail legend—that of a chalice—is actually an ingeniously conceived allegory.†   (source)
  • Here's how allegory works: things stand for other things on a one-for-one basis.†   (source)
  • I agree, of course, that this grid can be read as allegory, and yet ….†   (source)
  • Religious allegory has become a part of the fabric of reality.†   (source)
  • Back in 1678, John Bunyan wrote an allegory called The Pilgrim's Progress.†   (source)
  • Grail Allegory in Medieval Literature: A Treatise on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.†   (source)
  • If they can, it's not symbolism, it's allegory.†   (source)
  • "Allegory of the Green Knight," he called back.†   (source)
  • Some see it as a battle between male and female or water and earth Some see it as a fertility allegory.†   (source)
  • In this allegory the seeker, trying to reach the One, is drawn by two horses, one white and noble and temperate, and the other surly, stubborn, passionate and black.†   (source)
  • At first he doesn't see what it is, but then he becomes aware that the Chairman has completely bypassed Socrates' description of the One and has jumped ahead to the allegory of the chariot and the horses.†   (source)
  • Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.†   (source)
  • Langdon was no stranger to the theory that the Scriptures contained a hidden layer of meaning, a concealed message that was veiled in allegory, symbolism, and parable.†   (source)
  • If there is ambiguity or a lack of clarity regarding that one-to-one correspondence between the emblem—the figurative construct—and the thing it represents, then the allegory fails because the message is blurred.†   (source)
  • To ensure this powerful wisdom could not be used by the unworthy, the early adepts wrote down their knowledge in code …. cloaking its potent truth in a metaphorical language of symbols, myth, and allegory.†   (source)
  • Earlier tonight, inside the Temple Room, when I believed I was going to die, I looked at this grid, and somehow I saw past the metaphor, past the allegory, into the very heart of what these symbols are telling us.†   (source)
  • Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school.†   (source)
  • But the Grail's description as a chalice is actually an allegory to protect the true nature of the Holy Grail.†   (source)
  • As an academic, Langdon could not deny the historical record of these traditions—troves of documents, artifacts, and artwork that, indeed, clearly suggested the ancients had a powerful wisdom that they shared only through allegory, myths, and symbols, ensuring that only those properly initiated could access its power.†   (source)
  • Representative Fisher Ames of 'Massachusetts later wrote of sitting "entranced," as though he were witnessing "an allegory on which virtue was personified."†   (source)
  • The myth of the staircase was purely symbolic …. part of the great allegories of Masonry.†   (source)
  • All night, I've had a feeling we're treating as reality a collection of myths and allegories.†   (source)
  • We are sitting together in a Turkish bath having a conversation, except that Mintouchian is doing most of the talking, explaining various facts of existence to me, by allegory mostly.†   (source)
  • "I am sure that there is some allegory about it," Colia persisted.†   (source)
  • 'Ah, but it was symbolic,' they'll say, 'an allegory,' and the devil knows what all!†   (source)
  • "Good night!" says Mr. Tulkinghorn, and goes home to Allegory and meditation.†   (source)
  • "Besides, all that's by way of allegory in Gogol, for he's made all the names have a meaning.†   (source)
  • There was the allegory of my whole life: I, in the shadow, at the ladder's foot, While others lightly mount to Love and Fame!†   (source)
  • The whole allegory is a consistent attack on morality and respectability, without a word that one can remember against vice and crime.†   (source)
  • …to burst forth torrents of fire, timidity and zeal, who, as he pierced the Aubusson tapestries that screened the door of the room in which the music was being given with his impetuous, vigilant, desperate gaze, appeared, with a soldierly impassibility or a supernatural faith—an allegory of alarums, incarnation of alertness, commemoration of a riot—to be looking out, angel or sentinel, from the tower of dungeon or cathedral, for the approach of the enemy or for the hour of Judgment.†   (source)
  • "It is remarkable," he said, "how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in an allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.†   (source)
  • Perhaps all birth is an allegory!†   (source)
  • For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a threelegged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.†   (source)
  • Moralists and philosophers in America are not obliged to conceal their opinions under the veil of allegory; but, before they venture upon a harsh truth, they say, "We are aware that the people which we are addressing is too superior to all the weaknesses of human nature to lose the command of its temper for an instant; and we should not hold this language if we were not speaking to men whom their virtues and their intelligence render more worthy of freedom than all the rest of the…†   (source)
  • So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.†   (source)
  • His writings, to do them justice, are not altogether destitute of fancy and originality; they might have won him greater reputation but for an inveterate love of allegory, which is apt to invest his plots and characters with the aspect of scenery and people in the clouds, and to steal away the human warmth out of his conceptions.†   (source)
  • I declare that this bold metaphor is admirable, and that the natural history of the theatre, on a day of allegory and royal marriage songs, is not in the least startled by a dolphin who is the son of a lion.†   (source)
  • He saw in Mr Chivery, with some astonishment, quite an Allegory of Silence, as he stood with his key on his lips.†   (source)
  • Having interested the children, I then, leaving allegory, pressed simply and earnestly home to each young heart the truths I sought to teach; and, with a short prayer for a blessing on my words, brought the service to a close.†   (source)
  • No one knew me, for I disguised my voice, and no one dreamed of the silent, haughty Miss March (for they think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers) could dance and dress, and burst out into a 'nice derangement of epitaphs, like an allegory on the banks of the Nile'.†   (source)
  • The whole landscape, which, seen by a favoring light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects were arrayed in their harshest but truest colors, and without the relief of any shadowing.†   (source)
  • Jupiter, whose thunder could be heard rumbling in the dressing-room, supported her claim, and Venus was on the point of carrying it off,—that is to say, without allegory, of marrying monsieur the dauphin, when a young child clad in white damask, and holding in her hand a daisy (a transparent personification of Mademoiselle Marguerite of Flanders) came to contest it with Venus.†   (source)
  • Though it was not clear what the artist meant to express by depicting the so-called King of Rome spiking the earth with a stick, the allegory apparently seemed to Napoleon, as it had done to all who had seen it in Paris, quite clear and very pleasing.†   (source)
  • Here, beneath the painted ceiling, with foreshortened Allegory staring down at his intrusion as if it meant to swoop upon him, and he cutting it dead, Mr. Tulkinghorn has at once his house and office.†   (source)
  • They enable Allegory, though it has cheeks like peaches, and knees like bunches of blossoms, and rosy swellings for calves to its legs and muscles to its arms, to look tolerably cool to-night.†   (source)
  • From the ceiling, foreshortened Allegory, in the person of one impossible Roman upside down, points with the arm of Samson (out of joint, and an odd one) obtrusively toward the window.†   (source)
  • It is too dark to see much of the Allegory overhead there, but that importunate Roman, who is for ever toppling out of the clouds and pointing, is at his old work pretty distinctly.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXII Mr. Bucket Allegory looks pretty cool in Lincoln's Inn Fields, though the evening is hot, for both Mr. Tulkinghorn's windows are wide open, and the room is lofty, gusty, and gloomy.†   (source)
  • An excited imagination might suppose that there was something in them so terrific as to drive the rest of the composition, not only the attendant big-legged boys, but the clouds and flowers and pillars too—in short, the very body and soul of Allegory, and all the brains it has—stark mad.†   (source)
  • When a breeze from the country that has lost its way takes fright and makes a blind hurry to rush out again, it flings as much dust in the eyes of Allegory as the law—or Mr. Tulkinghorn, one of its trustiest representatives—may scatter, on occasion, in the eyes of the laity.†   (source)
  • But its roomy staircases, passages, and antechambers still remain; and even its painted ceilings, where Allegory, in Roman helmet and celestial linen, sprawls among balustrades and pillars, flowers, clouds, and big-legged boys, and makes the head ache—as would seem to be Allegory's object always, more or less.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I said, you must not wonder that those who attain to this beatific vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever hastening into the upper world where they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, if our allegory may be trusted.†   (source)
  • This entire allegory, I said, you may now append, dear Glaucon, to the previous argument; the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to my poor belief, which, at your desire, I have expressed— whether rightly or wrongly God knows.†   (source)
  • All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds.†   (source)
  • Hayward led them into a large, long room, dingily magnificent, with huge pictures on the walls of nude women: they were vast allegories of the school of Haydon; but smoke, gas, and the London atmosphere had given them a richness which made them look like old masters.†   (source)
  • Between them hang an engraved portrait of Richard Cobden; enlarged photographs of Martineau, Huxley, and George Eliot; autotypes of allegories by Mr G.F. Watts (for Roebuck believed in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them), and an impression of Dupont's engraving of Delaroche's Beaux Artes hemicycle, representing the great men of all ages.†   (source)
  • Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and dangers.†   (source)
  • Many a man has died with a heroic expression on his lips, but with heaviness and distrust at his heart; for, whatever may be the varieties of our religious creeds, let us depend on the mediation of Christ, the dogmas of Mahomet, or the elaborated allegories of the East, there is a conviction, common to all men, that death is but the stepping-stone between this and a more elevated state of being.†   (source)
  • "I don't think I know what you mean," she said; "you use too many figures of speech; I could never understand allegories.†   (source)
  • The sculptors of those days had stocks of such funereal emblems in hand; as you may see still on the walls of St. Paul's, which are covered with hundreds of these braggart heathen allegories.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, in that throng, upon which the four allegories vied with each other in pouring out floods of metaphors, there was no ear more attentive, no heart that palpitated more, not an eye was more haggard, no neck more outstretched, than the eye, the ear, the neck, and the heart of the author, of the poet, of that brave Pierre Gringoire, who had not been able to resist, a moment before, the joy of telling his name to two pretty girls.†   (source)
  • The allegory is the soul of the poem, but like the soul within the body it does not show itself in independent existence.†   (source)
  • In which Allegory, the Offender is the Sinner; both the Adversary and the Judge is God; the Way is this Life; the Prison is the Grave; the Officer, Death; from which, the sinner shall not rise again to life eternall, but to a second Death, till he have paid the utmost farthing, or Christ pay it for him by his Passion, which is a full Ransome for all manner of sin, as well lesser sins, as greater crimes; both being made by the passion of Christ equally veniall.†   (source)
  • To lay aside all allegory, the concern for what must become of poor Molly greatly disturbed and perplexed the mind of the worthy youth.†   (source)
  • The allegory consists in making their characters and their fates, what all human characters and fates really are, the types and images of spiritual law.†   (source)
  • It is the allegory of human life; and not of human life as an abstraction, but of the individual life; and herein, as Mr. Lowell, whose phrase I borrow, has said, "lie its profound meaning and its permanent force."†   (source)
  • The allegory in which he cloaked it is of a character that separates the Divine Comedy from all other works of similar intent, In The Pilgrim's Progress, for example, the personages introduced are mere simulacra of men and women, the types of moral qualities or religious dispositions.†   (source)
  • The narrative of the poet's spiritual journey is so vivid and consistent that it has all the reality of an account of an actual experience; but within and beneath runs a stream of allegory not less consistent and hardly less continuous than the narrative itself.†   (source)
  • To the illustration and carrying out of this interior meaning even the minutest details of external incident are made to contribute, with an appropriateness of significance, and with a freedom from forced interpretation or artificiality of construction such as no other writer of allegory has succeeded in attaining.†   (source)
  • …one of rare and original invention, for imitating Ovid in burlesque style, I show in it who the Giralda of Seville and the Angel of the Magdalena were, what the sewer of Vecinguerra at Cordova was, what the bulls of Guisando, the Sierra Morena, the Leganitos and Lavapies fountains at Madrid, not forgetting those of the Piojo, of the Cano Dorado, and of the Priora; and all with their allegories, metaphors, and changes, so that they are amusing, interesting, and instructive, all at once.†   (source)
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