We need spend little time in discussing the influence of the English Bible on Thomas Carlyle. He does not often use the Scripture for his main theme; but he is constantly making Biblical allusions. On a railway journey when I was rereading Carlyle's Historical Sketches, I found a direct Biblical reference for every five pages, and almost numberless allusions beside.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
was utterly baffling to twenty-eight of the thirty-four. One of them spoke of it as an "allusion to the uncertainty of the length of life." Another thought it was a reference to "the occasion of Jonah's being preserved by the whale." Another counted it "an allusion to the emesis of Jonah by the whale." Another considered it a reference to "the swallowing of Jonah by a whale," and yet another considered that it referred to "things grand, but not worthy of worship because they are perishable." It is amazing to read that in response to Tennyson's lines,英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
It should be added, however, that there is an allusion to some warning by Pocahontas in the last chapter of the "Oxford Tract." But the full story of the night visit and the streaming tears as we have given it seems without doubt to have been elaborated from very slight materials. And the subsequent insertion of the name of Pocahontas-- of which we have given examples above--into old accounts that had no allusion to her, adds new and strong presumptions to the belief that Smith invented what is known as the Pocahontas legend."英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
[421] -- ESTARNA. "A sort of small partridge with black feet" (Michaelis' Dict.). [422] -- Here we have the plural FANOEES. [423] -- Povos is a place near Lisbon. [424] -- Anegundi. [425] -- Below, pp. 292, 293. [426] -- The stone bridge, built on rows of rough monolithic uprights, the remains of which are still to be seen near the temple of Vitthalasvami, appears, from the absence of allusion to it, to have been constructed at a later date.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
Children are not born to them! Rules they have not! Government they know not! Prayers they hear not! There are seven! There are seven! Twice over there are seven! The tablets make frequent allusion to these seven spirits.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-1》
Ruskin thought her "Aurora Leigh" the greatest poem the century had produced at that time. It abounds in Scriptural allusions. Browning came by all this naturally. Raised in the Church by a father who "delighted to surround him with books, notably old and rare Bibles," and a mother Carlyle called "a true type of a Scottish gentlewoman," with all the skill in the Bible that that implies, he never lost his sense of the majesty of the movement of Scripture ideas and phrases.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
Whatever the prompt, you always answer in vague allusions to the baby we never had!美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
And the allusion to forcing a victim to pull over beside a field... why did you change those lyrics?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Good. So the allusion to the car trunk... how was that different from the crime?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》