allegorist

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The question of the origin of this habit of allegorising and personification is one which has been often incidentally discussed by literary historians, but which has never been exhaustively treated.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

When Philo, by allegorising away the simple human parts of his books, is untrue to Moses's teaching, he becomes untrue to Plato's.

From Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Kingsley, Charles

Escaping, after his early Temple de Cupido, from the allegorising style, he learned to express his personal sentiments, and something of the gay, bourgeois spirit of France, with aristocratic distinction.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

All this is foolish and unwholesome enough, just twice as much so, for its spiritual allegorising, as the worldly love poetry of these often foolish and unwholesome German chivalrous poets.

From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon

This allegorising tendency is engrained in Xenophon: it is his view of life; one of the best things he got from Socrates, no doubt.

From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Dakyns, Henry Graham