The things he describes are types because they are truths. It may be a reasonable question whether an artist should be allegorical. There can be no doubt among sane men that a critic should be allegorical. For a boy is only sent to be taught at school when it is too late to teach him anything. The real thing has been done already, and thank God it is nearly always done by women.
Every man is womanized, merely by being born.
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch. For solemnity flows out of men naturally, but laughter is a leap. YES, you are right. I am afraid of him. Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him and strike him on the mouth.