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His taste for simplicity is evinced, by sprinkling up and down his interminable declamations, a few descriptions of baby-houses, and of old hats with wet brims; and his amiable partiality for humble life, by assuring us, that a wordy rhetorician, who talks about Thebes, and allegorizes all the heathen mythology, was once a pedlar and making him break in upon his magnificent orations with two or three awkward notices of something that he had seen when selling winter raiment about the country or of the changes in the state of society, which had almost annihilated his former calling.
The wooden frame represents the cross of Christ, and the cord, which formerly served to set the bell swinging, allegorizes the science of the Scriptures which flows from the mystery of the Cross itself. "The most ancient liturgists expound practically the same symbols.
We all hide ourselves behind veils, and, as Emerson says, "Man crouches and blushes, absconds and conceals." "The Ambitious Guest" allegorizes a vain imagination, and is the most important of these three. A young man suffers from a craving for distinction, which he believes will only come to him after this life is ended.
Then, sapphire represents the lofty aspirations of the soul, chalcedony charity, sard and onyx candor, beryl allegorizes theological science, hyacinthe humility, while the ruby appeases wrath, and emerald 'lapidifies' incorruptible faith. "Now in magic," Des Hermies rose and took from a shelf a very small volume bound like a prayer book.
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