The original title of the composition is understood to have been “Virtew and Vyce”; and after the poetic fashion of its time the allegory is cast in form of a dream.
Modelled upon the classical allegory of the “Choice of Hercules,” it is addressed to James V.
His allegory itself is but one part allegory and nine parts beauty and enjoyment; sometimes an excess of flesh and blood.
The "Thistle and the Rose" has been pronounced "the happiest political allegory in our language.
Julien is generally represented destroying a dragon, symbolizing paganism, or accompanied by a young girl carrying a pitcher of water, an allegory of the miraculous well.
The story of the children is probably an allegory of the conversion of sinners, the tub being the baptismal font and the wicked host, the evil state in which all men are born.
It is supposed to be an allegory of the history of Christianity, which Clovis introduced to France, and Napoleon patted on the back by means of the Concordat.
The allegory is quite elaborate and wire-drawn; and the piece has something of humour in the matter, and of melody in the versification.
And he abounds in all the figures of speech known in formal rhetoric, except the Allegory and the Apologue.
All this, to be sure, is making the work rather an allegory than a drama, and therein of course misrepresents its quality.
She generally used allegory and symbol, and she was fired with the desire to arrest the attention of her young readers and "do them good.
It is remarkable that this long practice in allegory and symbol fitted her for her labours in her latter years, amongst the boys and girls of the Far East.
In this farce there is a curious and constantly recurring play on words, but the allegory and the symbol with which she afterwards clothed her stories are absent.
I find, therefore, that though these Allegory theorists are on the way towards truth in this matter, they have not reached it either.
The Pilgrim's Progress is an Allegory, and a beautiful, just and serious one: but consider whether Bunyan's Allegory could have preceded the Faith it symbolizes!
The Allegory is the product of the certainty, not the producer of it; not in Bunyan's nor in any other case.
Allegory and Poetic Delineation, as I said above, cannot be religious Faith; the Faith itself must first be there, then Allegory enough will gather round it, as the fit body round its soul.
The most cunning allegory that ever was devised is plain and easy in comparison with the simplest true story,--fully told: and a man is a poet in proportion as he fully tells a simple true story.
Is not allegory a very pretty way of telling such a story of the mind, under the appearance of telling a story of a life?
The crowning of the first modern Kaiser in the very palace of the old French kings was an allegory; like an allegory on those Versailles walls.
In allegory the author of the 'Fairy Queen' is hardly superior, and in the enthusiasm of devotion Fletcher surpasses him far.
The 'Confessio' is a large unwieldy collection of poetry and prose, superstition and science, love and religion, allegory and historical facts.
The allegory is not well managed, but some of the natural descriptions are sweet and striking.
Plautine allegory of the goat and the ape (Merc, ii.
The discussion between Mr Bond and Mr Baker in reality turns upon the interpretation of the allegory of Endymion, and it is therefore one of those questions of literary probability which can never hope to receive a satisfactory answer.
Indistinctness of character seems to be in keeping with an allegory of moonshine; and even the mechanical action cannot spoil the poetical atmosphere which pervades the whole.
For the moment putting on one side all questions of the allegory of Endymion, there are two reasons which seem to go a long way towards justifying Mr Bond for placing Campaspe as the earliest of Lyly's plays.
But in reality there is no retrogression; for with Lyly allegory is not an ethical instrument.
The absence of allallegory from Campaspe shows that Lyly had broken with the morality: and we seem therefore to be going back, when two years later we have an allegorical play from his pen.
The solution of the allegory lies mainly in the interpretation of Tellus' character, and I cannot but agree with Mr Bond when he decides that Tellus is Mary Queen of Scots.
To understand antiquity, we must follow the methods of the wise among the ancients, and the method of allegory and parable was the manner of teaching of the great Masters of the past.
And being lewd in nature and goaded on through shame of his promises, the vagabond fabricated a corrupt allegory for those whom he had deceived.
The allegoryis a striking one, and perfectly comprehensible to the student of comparative religion.
But Goodwin's reader has read and re- read the great chapter, and has not yet discovered where the metaphor and the allegory came in and where they went out.
To go back then to John Bunyan, and to his allegory of the human heart.
Now, that was the exact case of Mansoul in the allegory of the Holy War at one of the last and acutest stages of that war.
In the moral fervor with which the dramatic allegoryinformed him Matt felt wickedness an impossibility henceforward; his future life stretched before him white, fleckless, unstainable.
Allegorical paintings are secondary art when they endeavour to cover more than a moment of time in a single design, or when the allegory is merely a metaphor applying to action.
Henneberg has a Fortune allegory in which Death is about to seize a horseman who is chasing a nude woman,[b] this design being a slight modification of a variety of prints executed in the sixteenth century.
For his allegory is a very flexible instrument, which can be employed at pleasure to deduce anything from anything.
As all knowledge came from God, so all knowledge was in God's Book; and allegory was the method by which the intellectual conceptions of succeeding ages were attached to it.
His allegory of the burning bush, which Moses saw at Horeb is typical, and presents a truth to which the whole history of Israel bears witness.
He does not depend on such devices, for he wanders into allegory more often than not without any pretext of the kind.
They allegorized when an allegory was invited, whereas Philo and his school often forced their philosophical meanings in face of the clear purport of the text, and without regard to the Hebrew.
It enables the interpreter to bring writings of antiquity into touch with the culture of his or any age; "the gates of allegory are never closed, and they open upon a path which stretches without a break through the centuries.
Allegory and its counterpart, allegorical interpretation, are deeply imbedded in the Oriental mind, and we hear of ancient schools of symbolists in the oldest portions of the Talmud.
In fact salvation, as conceived in Gnosticism, is always a myth, a history of bygone events, an allegory or figure, but not an historical event.
Both Petrarch and Boccaccio regarded allegoryas the warp and woof of poetry; but they modified the mediaeval point of view by arguing conversely that theology itself is a form of poetry,--the poetry of God.
It is, therefore, as anallegory of the Renaissance, conscious of its destiny and strongest aspirations in the person of an almost nameless monk, that we should read the Hypnerotomachia.
Poetry was hardly suffered to exist except as a veil to cloak some hidden doctrine; and allegory presented a middle way of escape, whereby the pleasure of art could be enjoyed with a safe conscience.
Allegory is but a transparent veil, to make the nudity of natural impulse fascinating.
This fable was the Mystery of the new age, the allegory of the work appointed for the nation.
The pageant of Love and Jealousy and the allegory of Hope in the second part are both such poetry as only needed something magical from the touch of Ariosto to make them perfect.
The spirit of the epoch inclined to Allegory and Vision.
The object of the foregoing paragraphs has been to show that the popular intellect was well prepared for religious poetry, and had appropriated the forms of Allegory and Vision.
This license inherent in the use of allegory justified his classing the fameless folk of his own days with the heroes of Biblical and classical antiquity, and permitted him to mingle ancient history with his censure of contemporary politics.
He is strongest when he paints a violent passion or describes voluptuous sensations, weakest when he attempts allegory or assumes the airs of a philosopher.
The pageant was, indeed, an acted allegory of the death of Italy, the repentance after judgment of a nation fallen in its sins.
He replaced the abstractions of the allegoryby concrete fact.
Considered as an allegory of the spiritual life on earth, it describes the process of escape from eternal condemnation through grace into eternal happiness.
Perhaps the most popular and influential allegory of the Middle Ages was "The Romance of the Rose", written in France but translated or imitated in every other country.
Dante's "Divine Comedy" is an allegory of a very elevated kind.
Such, in the briefest form, is the argument of the Divine Comedy; this statement carries the actual story and the allegory side by side.
Thus allegorical invention, in poetry like Spenser's, or in imaginative prose like Bunyan's, may be something not very different from imaginative work with no conscious allegory in it at all.
It concludes one period; it is a summary of the old French romantic and sentimental poetry, a narrative allegory setting forth the ideas that might be extracted from Provencal lyric.
The author of Piers Plowman is too careless, and uses too often a mechanical form of allegorywhich is little better than verbiage.
As with Dante, allegory is a right name, but also an insufficient name for the mode of thought in this poem.
Soul's Ward is a homily, a religious allegory of the defence of Man's Soul.
The Pearl, one of the most beautiful of the English medieval poems, is an allegory which begins in this same way; the Vision of Piers Plowman is another.
It would be hard to discover a rationalallegory in this pretty story, unless we are to infer from it that nothing was impossible to the gods.
We may sum this myth up by saying that it is an allegory of "the soul of man, the deathless soul, Defeated, struggling, purified and blest.
We have said that this story is an allegory; do you understand just what an allegory is?
