Allegorists [noun]

Whatever the primitive Semitic allegorist may have thought, work is a blessing, not a curse.

To the allegorist, the fable or plot in epic or dramatic poetry was only a rind to cover attractively the kernel of truth.

Such a story tempts the allegorist, and indeed the main drift of its meaning is unmistakable.

Philo of Alexandria, the greatest allegorist of the day, has expounded the same history.

Every tale is accompanied by the gloss of a pious allegorist.

His force of imagination made him the greatest allegorist the world has seen.

Cowper ventured to praise the great allegorist, but did not venture to name him.

We need not be so dense as to require the allegorist to say to us in so many words: "This is a parable."

The allegorizer requires an allegorist to interpret him aright.