They are really metaphorical, but the difference between an allusive and a metaphorical piece is this,--that in the former the writer proceeds to state the theme which his mind is occupied with, while no such intimation is given in the latter.
Generally, the allusive lines convey a meaning harmonizing with those which follow, where an English poet would begin the verses with Like or As.
Introduction of Badges into Heraldry; Their Prevalence; Allusive Badges; Badges of obscure Origin; Knots and Badges; The Rebus.
If by chance a badge could have any punning or allusive meaning it was the more popular, and it then often served as a rebus.
It no doubt originated in the canting orallusive heraldry of earlier days, like the boars' heads of the Swynburnes, the trumpets of the Trumpingtons, the hammers (Fr.
The conduct of Belshazzar in the great feast of this chapter is probably meant as an allusive contrast to the revels and impieties of Antiochus Epiphanes, especially in his infamous festival at the grove of Daphne.
Thus, if the prophetic section is mainly devoted to Antiochus Epiphanes, the historic section seems to have an allusive bearing on his impious madness.
In the back ground groups of small figures allusive to the last judgment.
Over each print, passages from scripture, allusive to the subject, in Latin, and at bottom the substance of them in four French verses.
They are plain and simple, as different as possible from the allusive brevity of the Northern poems.
There is one class of poem that represents a single action with some detail; there is another that represents a long and complex story in a summary and allusive way.
The poems of Widsith and Deor's Lament show how the allusive and lyrical manner of referring to heroic legend was kept up in England.
Duke's Poems is a most flattering one addressed to Waller, evidently allusive to the lines in question.
It is singular that no armorial alliance allusive to his wife appears on the tomb, but only his own family achievement with its proud distinguishment conspicuously displayed, finds place thereon.
Their allusive arms were, Or, on a bend sable, three horse-shoes argent.
Angels support the cushions on which her head rests, and an animal, probably intended for a boar, as allusive to her family, is at her feet.
As a matter of course, allusive mottoes, like allusive arms, afford curious examples of mediæval puns.
They are borne as allusive charges, and also as types of some connection between those persons who bear them and the sea or lakes or rivers.
A Fish borne as an allusive device by the family of DE BARRE: No.
The allusive and allegorical features which had long been traditional in the pastoral likewise suited the topical and occasional nature of the masque.
The influence ot the eclogue was on the whole slight, but to it we may reasonably ascribe a share of the topical and allusive elements, when these do not appear assignable either to the Arcadian drama or to masque literature generally.
In this piece, Rowe left sacred for profane history, and made his tragedy so politically allusive to Louis XIV.
Profoundly eccentric and tiresomely allusive in his form, and working in the short rhyming couplets thenceforth called "Hudibrastics," Butler founded a small and peculiar but long-lived school of satire.
Virgil had complained [40] that its resources were used up, and in Propertius we already see that allusive way of dealing with it which savours of a general satiety.
The third book, after a short and offensively allusive description of the labours of preceding poets, sketches the twelve athla or accidents of human life, to each of which is assigned its special guardian influence.
But its style, while it bears the general colour of the Silver Age, has also large traces of that compressed and allusive manner which Tacitus later carried to such an extreme degree of perfection.
Now she was a little sorry for him, but she said that of course he must go; that no doubt it was good that he should go, and so on, in gentle, allusive phrases.
She had not meant the song to be allusive when she began, but to speak to him through it by singing the heathen song as his own sister might sing it.
So we may find a theme of considerable general interest in the world of literature, treated in the allusive literary manner which has so much charm for the booklover.
One may note the opulent language, enriched from older sources, the historical lore and the allusive touch so fascinating to those who love literature for its own sake.
It was his pleasure in all his books to give his characters allusive names by which you were supposed to recognise their attributes at once.
It does not conceal its true character, but tries to force the reader's admiration by startling imagery, or strained emphasis, or tricks ofallusive periphrasis.
Such direct personal references are not in keeping with the allusive style in which he writes of himself and others.
Though he still adheres to an indirect and allusive treatment of his subject, these poems possess the interest of being based on real experience.
The reserve with which all his personal relations are indicated, and the allusive way in which the story of his fortunes is told, are in keeping with the delicacy and modesty of Virgil's nature.
From the neck of this idol of the populace is suspended a millstone, on which is inscribed £3000 per annum, allusive to his pension, and intimating that so ponderous a load must in time sink his popularity.
In modern heraldry such bearings are usually adopted with special allusion to actions performed at sea, or they have reference in some way to the name or designation of the bearer, and hence termed allusive or canting heraldry.
A phoenix in flames proper, gorged with a mural coronet, is the allusive crest of the Fenwicks; the motto over the crest is the cri de guerre, "A Fenwick!
In the following table the quotations which are merely allusive are included in brackets:-- Exact.
But it is clear from the allusive manner in which the Scandinavian tales are told, that they must have been familiar to the poet's audience.
This follows from the allusive way in which he and his wife are introduced--there must be a background to allusions.
