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Definition of Allegories
1. allegory [n] - See also: allegory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegories
Literary usage of Allegories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bible Hand-book: An Introduction to the Study of Sacred Scripture by Joseph Angus (1873)
"... infinite springs and streams of doctrine to water the church in every part .....
not that I wish men to be bold in allegories .... but that I do much ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1770)
"The running-title to this work is, ' allegories for Young Ladies,' ... The allegories
here ..."
3. The Life-work of George Frederick Watts, R.A. by Hugh Macmillan (1903)
"Chapter XI allegories WATTS is par excellence the painter of ideas put into
symbolic form.1 In this respect, as Ruskin has remarked, he differs widely from ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... is physiological allegories under it) as a thing that was destructive of all
piety ... that those ancient fables contain allegories of physical truths. ..."
5. Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe by Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1827)
"On the various Poetry of the Trouveres; their allegories; Fabliaux; Lyrical Poems;
Mysteries and Moralities. , ALTHOUGH the literature of France is entirely ..."
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