In these passages we see the use of the allegoric name masons upon the extinction of the former name.
But Andrea had made it impossible to understand it in any other than an allegoric sense, by describing it as a building that would remain invisible to the godless world for ever.
Because he rejected theallegoric interpretation of the Old Testament, and explained its predictions as referring to a Messiah of the Jews who was yet to come, he seemed to be a Jew (Tertull.
The history of his people, though he believed in it literally, was in its main points a didactic allegoric poem for enabling him to inculcate the doctrine that man attains the vision of God by mortification of the flesh.
The Evangelic history as handed down is not the history of Christ, but a collection of allegoric representations of the great history of God and the world.
From his occasional poems an expert and careful hand might easily gather a noble anthology of excerpts, chiefly gnomic or meditative, allegoric or descriptive.
This is still further attested by the difficulty, which is almost always felt, of translating them, as it were, into ordinary language, and hence the many allegoric and symbolic forms under which they are made known.
The bewildering redundance and intricacy of detail in Endymion are obvious, the presence of an underlying strain of allegoric or symbolic meaning harder to detect.
But it was not with Spenser alone, it was with other allegoric and narrative poets as well, his followers or contemporaries, that Keats was in these days gaining acquaintance.
It is the title of a cold allegoric dialogue of the old French court poet Alan Chartier, which Keats knew in the translation traditionally ascribed to Chaucer.
The events that follow, and the converse held between the poet and the priestess, are in their ethical and allegoric meanings at many points obscure, and capable, like all symbols that are truly symbolic, of various interpretations.
We must conclude with a few words on one point on which we differ somewhat from Mrs. Jameson--the allegoric origin of certain legendary stories.
The Iroquois have their full share in the fabulous and allegoric periods, and an examination of their tales and traditions will be found, I apprehend, to give ample scope to poetry and imagination.
And from their present residence and recent history, to run back, by a few sentences, into purely fabulous and allegoric periods.
I wish every sculptor might be at once imprisoned for life who shall hereafter chisel an allegoric figure; and as for those who have sculptured them heretofore, let them be kept in purgatory till the marble shall have crumbled away.
This divine performance was presented by Cardinal Barberino to Cardinal Mazarin, with two others painted in water colours on canvass, representing in allegoric figures the heroism of Virtue and the debasement of Vice.
The popularity of allegoric painting did much to hinder the progress of English art.
The inference is that in the Holy Scriptures there are many metaphors and words with a double or allegoric sense.
These personages, who strike the allegoric and personifying note of the poem, are described at varying length, the last three being perhaps the best.
Opposite the entrance of the navy-yard, stands a rostral column of white marble with allegoric figures.
The impression which he receives is pretty much like that from the monumental figure of some allegoric being, such as Faith or Hope, Fame or Truth.
We think of him as having a sort of allegoric generality, liberated from the bonds of the individual; and yet, also, as the most awful among natures, having a conscious personality.
The taboos on meats were not prohibitions of the flesh of weasels, hares and hyaenas and so forth, but were allegoric warnings against fleshly lusts, to which ancient zoologists and modern Arabs have supposed these animals to be prone.
These last fall into two classes--theorematic dreams, as when a man dreams of a voyage, and wakes to go upon a voyage, and allegoric dreams.
The latter adjective has a great history in regions more august, but the allegoric method is the same everywhere, as an illustration will show.
What walks have we not taken, leaving sacred personages and profane, not to speak ofallegoric ones, far behind in the backgrounds of the old Tuscans, Umbrians, and Venetians!
