These memorials seem to have been taken from antient symbols ill understood; and all that remains of them consists of extravagant Allegories and fables, of which but little now can be decyphered.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant
If I had been alone, I suppose I should still have gone into the Campo Santo, from mere force of habit; I always go, in Pisa, but I had now with me clearer eyes for art than mine are, and I wished to have their light on the great Allegories and histories frescoed round the cloisters, and test with them the objects of my tacit and explicit reserves and misgivings.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
It is as if these French artists had worked in the German taste, rather than their own, and in any case they have achieved in their several Allegories and impersonations something uniformly heavy and dull.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells