 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 440 pages
...metaphor. See Blair's Lectures, xv. It is a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal object is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. — Webster. Allegories are in words what hieroglyphics are in painting. The distinction between a... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 420 pages
...metaphor. See Blair's Lectures, xv. It is a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal object is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. — Webster. Allegories are in words what hieroglyphics are in painting. The distinction between a... | |
 | 1844 - 420 pages
...; see Blair's Lectures, xv. It is a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal object is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. — Webster. Allegories are in words what hieroglyphics are in painting. The distinction betweea a... | |
 | John Boag - 1848 - 816 pages
...al'lè-gor-rè, [Gr.]«. Л figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is deK-ribcd by another subject resembling it in its properties...are left to collect the intentions of the writer or ppeaker, by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject, Allegory is in words wlmthiLTopIyphics... | |
 | John Boag - 1848 - 790 pages
...pr. Turning into allegory, or understanding in an allegorical sense. ALLEGOKT, al'U*-gor-ri-, [Gr.]n. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal...properties and circumstances. The principal subject is thug kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker, by the rcftCTnblanco... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1850 - 576 pages
...resemblance to another, to which every part may be metaphorically applied ; or it is a figure of speech in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in ite proportions and circumstances ; a figurative manner uf speech or description. [than alltfro. Ab-LE-GRETTO,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...EXAMPLES. . N ALLEGORY. § 617. ALLEGORY, Greek d^rjyopfa, of aA.Ao?, other, and ayoptvu, 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... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...I exceedingly fear and quake." In the other system the sun shines brightly, "and * An allegory is " a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal...thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intention of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. Allegory... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...EXAMPLES. ALLEGORY. § 571. ALLEGORY, Greek d^rryopia, of oAAof, other, and d-yopevw, 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1857 - 1310 pages
...AL'LE-GO-RY, n. (Gr. .AAnyojun.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject ia described by another subject resembling it in its...The principal subject is thus kept out of view, and wo are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary... | |
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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. 
