The allegorist is, as it were, the polar opposite of the collector. From Wordnik.com. [The Allegorist and the Collector] Reference
All ambiguity appeared to be lost, killed in the dungeon of the allegorist. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The allegorist does not wish to lose any of the materials present to his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Drury had gone from being a realist to being an allegorist, but with this problem. From Wordnik.com. [A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury] Reference
Stridbeck, and others to be an allegorist expressing a skeptical, humanistic outlook. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
The allegorist treats his universe as if its being were literal, as if it were a book. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The allegorist does not prove and disprove hypotheses which are then dropped if they fail to hold up as fact. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
As in previous times, the allegorist can today use many different media, including music (with “programs” and leitmotifs) and the visual arts (with emblems and icons). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Other allegorists have shown equal ingenuity, but no other allegorist has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of love. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Nevertheless – and this is more important than all the differences that may exists between them – in every collector hides an allegorist, and in every allegorist a collector. From Wordnik.com. [The Allegorist and the Collector] Reference
The allegorist therefore proposes to supplant the literal inconsistency by a spiritual equivalent possessed of inner truth, precisely, in short, what had been veiled by the inconsistent literal surface. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Analogy serves the allegorist, as it serves the cosmolo - gist, but here the test of the figurative schema is not its yield of experiment or observation, but its fertility in leading to still further figuration. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
On the other hand, the allegorist – for whom objects represent only keywords in a secret dictionary, which will make known their meanings to the initiated – precisely the allegorist can never have enough of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Allegorist and the Collector] Reference
By the end of the second book, though, his quest seemed to have failed, as he was captured by an evil allegorist and tortured with harrowingly simplified logics that succeeded in revealing the death instinct to be the mask of symbolic order. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Since in the theological context of most serious ancient allegory there is scarcely room for a scientific theory of lan - guage, since, in short, language is here a means of revelation, there seems to have been no way for the allegorist to gain perspective on his own activity. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
In his politics and his religious views as well as in his poetry, he was an allegorist of good and evil, and some of the figures he was most concerned to revile-Sir Isaac Newton, for example-do not seem to most of us to have been the agents of the devil that Blake believed them to be. From Wordnik.com. [A Mystery and Genius, Blake is a Conundrum] Reference
Athenian dialectician, but Plato the poet and allegorist. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference
The allegorizer requires an allegorist to interpret him aright. From Wordnik.com. [Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria] Reference
Cowper ventured to praise the great allegorist, but did not venture to name him. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3] Reference
Such a story tempts the allegorist, and indeed the main drift of its meaning is unmistakable. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
Hawthorne, the allegorist par excellence, saw that Melville had before him more than a sea story. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Late in the eighteenth century Cowper did not venture to do more than allude to the great allegorist. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference
As a longtime reader of Tate, I feel that his genius has reinvented itself once again, this time as an allegorist and satirist, an American Kafka. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
Paul is allied in spirit -- though his expression is that of the fanatic rather than of the philosopher -- to the extreme allegorist section of philosophical. From Wordnik.com. [Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria] Reference
Other allegorists have shown equal ingenuity but no other allegorist has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of love. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference
Dante, alone among the poets of later times, has been, in this respect, neither an allegorist nor an imitator; and, consequently, he alone has introduced the ancient fictions with effect. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1] Reference
This ridiculous name, which seems to have been chosen by some poet or allegorist to suit so ridiculous a personage struck the fancy of the people; and they commonly affixed to this assembly the appellation of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell] Reference
Anthony Lane wrote, What could have seemed arch and contrived becomes, in Lanthimos's careful hands, something more mysterious: a fable without a moral, seething with political suggestion but offering precious little to the allegorist viewer. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
He is neither a narrator, nor an allegorist. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
Are you a prophet, or merely an allegorist? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Gun-Brand] Reference
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