 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...EXAMPLES. ALLEGORY. § 432. ALLEGORY, Greek allegoria, of alIas, other, and agoreuo, to speak, is a sentence or discourse in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it. It is made up of continued allusion, so that, while professedly a description of one subject, it has... | |
 | John Cochran - Bible - 1860 - 378 pages
...meaning." Mr. Webster, in his Dictionary, gives a very clear and correct definition of allegory, thus : " A figurative sentence or discourse in which the principal subject is described by another resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The principal subject is thus kept out of view,... | |
 | 1867 - 570 pages
...Homeward Bound : a Sacred Allegory. Octavo. W. H. Collingridge, Aldersgate-street, EC An allegory is a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal...circumstances. The principal subject is thus kept out of sight, and the intention of the writer or speaker is inferred from the resemblance of the secondary... | |
 | William Bacon Stevens - 1866 - 426 pages
...self-forgetting virtues." The Parable also is essentially different from the Allegory. The Allegory is a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal...resembling it in its properties and circumstances. That exquisite passage in the eightieth Psalm, where David portrays Israel as a vine which God brought... | |
 | Charles Hartley - Oratory - 1870 - 74 pages
...when inanimate objects are apostrophized as intelligent beings. Allegory, which, says Webster, is " a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal...or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary object. The distinction in Scripture between a parable and an allegory is said to be, that... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...olios, other, agoreuein, to speak) is a prolonged use of a metaphor in the form of a story or narrative, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it. An example of allegory is Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress." There are two kinds of allegory, viz., FABLES,... | |
 | H. L. D. Potter - 1873 - 444 pages
...Vineyard," "The Parable of the Tares." 1 2. An allegory is a figurative application of real facts ; a sentence or discourse in which the principal subject...described by another subject resembling it in its qualities, properties, and circumstances ; as, Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress."* II. Divisions. The... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...F.XAMPLES. ALLEGORY. § 571. ALLEGORY, Greek dAAj/yopta, of aAA-of, other, and dyopevu, to speak, is a sentence or discourse in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it. It is made up of continued allusion, so that while professedly a description of one subject, it has... | |
 | Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - 1874 - 300 pages
...an allegory?" Now, listen to me, and I'll tell ye, my lad, what is an allegory. 'An allegory is just a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal...circumstances. The principal subject is thus kept out of view altogether. We are left to collect the intentions of the writer by the resemblance only of the secondary... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
..."The king's favor is as dew upon the grass." AN ALLEGORY is a continued metaphor. It is a figurative discourse in which the principal subject is described...resembling it in its properties and circumstances. Parable and Fable are closely allied to Allegory. ANTITHESIS consists of words or sentiments in the... | |
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a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. 
