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Hawthorne allegorized it in "Ethan Brand," and his quaint illustration of the folly of romantic expansion of the self apart from the common interests of human kind is the picture of a dog chasing its own tail.
Origen tells us, moreover, that he often introduced excerpts from the books of Moses and the Prophets, and allegorized them with ingenuity.
These delights of paradise were certainly, at first, understood literally; however Mahometan divines may have since allegorized them into a spiritual sense.
With the breaking up of the Empire the stream of classical culture was restricted to a narrow channel the Church. Opposed as it was to pagan morals and theology, the church could honestly retain classical literature only if it were allegorized. This explains the allegorical nature of mediaeval poetry and of poetical theory. From the beginning the learning of the Church was of pagan origin. St.
W. Cureton from an Arabic MS. of the fifteenth century, and published by the Philobiblon Society of London, the idea of the eternal watchfulness of God is thus beautifully allegorized: "Then Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, dost thou sleep or not? The Lord said unto Moses, I never sleep: but take a cup and fill it with water.
As time rolls on, the 'Holy War, allegorized by John Bunyan, becomes more and more popular; nor can there be a doubt, but that so long as the internal conflict and spiritual warfare between the renewed soul and its deadly enemies are maintained, this book will become increasingly popular.
"Jonah," by the Rev. F. Hodgson. Quoted in Foreign and Colonial Review, July, 1843: Art. Schiller, p. 21. It seems generally agreed that poetry is allegorized in these stanzas; though, with this interpretation, it is difficult to reconcile the sense of some of the lines for instance, the last in the first stanza. How can poetry be said to leave no trace when she takes farewell?
She is no allegorized piece of humanity, no impersonation of attributes, but an actual woman, beautiful, modest, gentle, with companions only less beautiful than herself, the most delightful figure in the midst of the picturesque life of Florence.
'Only by the distaste that they gave unto my spirit, I felt there was something in me that refused to embrace them. Here are the facts which are allegorized in the history of Christian, passing through the Valley of Humiliation, and fighting with the Prince of the power of the air.
Thus the world of perception became unreal, that it might be transmuted into the real world of faith; and symbolism like that of Hugh of St. The unity of knowledge was thus purchased at a price. Things must cease to be studied in themselves, and must be allegorized into types, in order that they might be reduced to a unity.
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