ALLEGORY

Related Subjects: Symbols

1. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.—ADDISON

2. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.—EMERSON