The Quarterly Review, Volume 251William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1928 |
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Page 99
... Bunyan possessed it . Poeta nascitur , non fit , of course ; and most certainly Bunyan was never a poet . But there is no congenital qualification , one fancies , for an admirable writer of prose . One speaks it , however indifferently ...
... Bunyan possessed it . Poeta nascitur , non fit , of course ; and most certainly Bunyan was never a poet . But there is no congenital qualification , one fancies , for an admirable writer of prose . One speaks it , however indifferently ...
Page 100
... Bunyan's prose style was unlike that of any of his contemporaries , we shall certainly discover in him no kinship to those whose lives and literary interests were ... Bunyan was confident in his powers of expression ; 100 JOHN BUNYAN.
... Bunyan's prose style was unlike that of any of his contemporaries , we shall certainly discover in him no kinship to those whose lives and literary interests were ... Bunyan was confident in his powers of expression ; 100 JOHN BUNYAN.
Page 101
... Bunyan was confident in his powers of expression ; he says , 6.66 . . . thine only way Before them all , is to say out thy say In thine own native language , which no man Now useth , nor with ease dissemble can . " And he might well be ...
... Bunyan was confident in his powers of expression ; he says , 6.66 . . . thine only way Before them all , is to say out thy say In thine own native language , which no man Now useth , nor with ease dissemble can . " And he might well be ...
Page 102
... Bunyan has been so much written about that few writers to - day can find much of their own to say of him . Macaulay exaggerates slightly , but is not far wrong when he declares : " The fame of Bunyan during his life , and during the ...
... Bunyan has been so much written about that few writers to - day can find much of their own to say of him . Macaulay exaggerates slightly , but is not far wrong when he declares : " The fame of Bunyan during his life , and during the ...
Page 103
... Bunyan , as also he has , in a modified way , to Shakespeare . He thinks that Bunyan's coward stirs your blood more than Shakespeare's hero [ apparently he means Mr Fearing and Henry V ] , who actually leaves you cold and secretly ...
... Bunyan , as also he has , in a modified way , to Shakespeare . He thinks that Bunyan's coward stirs your blood more than Shakespeare's hero [ apparently he means Mr Fearing and Henry V ] , who actually leaves you cold and secretly ...
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Page 111 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
Page 275 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 54 - And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 275 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 258 - When a man hath taken a wife and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes because he hath found some uncleanness or abhorrence in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house with whatever share the priests say is fair.
Page 54 - Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness, shall be heard in the light ; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets, shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Page 108 - Yea, here they heard continually the singing of birds, and saw every day the flowers appear in the earth, and heard the voice of the turtle in the land. In this country, the sun shineth night and day...
Page 108 - Now I saw in my dream, that by this time the Pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground ; and, entering into the country of Beulah,* whose air was very sweet and pleasant, the way lying directly through it, they solaced themselves there for a season.
Page 274 - THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Page 105 - Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Or make quick-coming death a little thing...