One may well shudder at most presentments of the Sacred Heart, but even apart from all consideration for the artist, a certain reverence for the idea there Travestied and unintentionally dishonoured, should forbid our insulting what after all is so nearly related to that idea, and in the eyes of the untaught very closely identified with it.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
In his novel of Kenilworth, Walter Scott has been guilty of a woeful perversion of the old tradition, Travestied from the Berkshire legend of Wayland Smith.
"The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson"
Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
Just as you in Massachusetts would be banded if 300,000 men, not one in a hundred able to read his ballot-banded in race instinct, holding against you the memory of a century of slavery, taught by your late conquerors to distrust and oppose you, had already Travestied legislation from your State House, and in every species of folly or villainy had wasted your substance and exhausted your credit.
"The Art of Public Speaking"
Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein