If any ask why I thus allegorize, I answer, the text doth lead me to it.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3"
John Bunyan
9. Whether we may allegorize Scripture, and how far?
"Fletcher of Madeley"
Frederic W. Macdonald
And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter.
"The Odyssey of Homer"
Homer, translated by Alexander Pope