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... BUNYAN Bunyan more than a representative of Puritanism - Would an Anglican Bunyan be possible ? -Personal and universal elements in his writings - How serviceable for modern minds- " Grace Abounding " -Realisation of the unseen - Bunyan ...
... BUNYAN Bunyan more than a representative of Puritanism - Would an Anglican Bunyan be possible ? -Personal and universal elements in his writings - How serviceable for modern minds- " Grace Abounding " -Realisation of the unseen - Bunyan ...
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... Bunyan , perhaps , succeeded better ; but in allegory the idea has a certain detachment from its body of sense ; it dwells within , but it is never indis- solubly incorporated . In prose Bunyan could drop more easily than Milton could ...
... Bunyan , perhaps , succeeded better ; but in allegory the idea has a certain detachment from its body of sense ; it dwells within , but it is never indis- solubly incorporated . In prose Bunyan could drop more easily than Milton could ...
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... Bunyan , as compared with Milton , had no slight artistic advan- tage in the fact that his starting - point was a personal experience . What he beheld in vision he had known in a cruder form as a fragment of actual life . Perhaps it was ...
... Bunyan , as compared with Milton , had no slight artistic advan- tage in the fact that his starting - point was a personal experience . What he beheld in vision he had known in a cruder form as a fragment of actual life . Perhaps it was ...
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... Bunyan ; sometimes when he soars in his flights of imaginative faith , he soars so smoothly that we hardly discern the quiver of a wing . Browne's manuscript pleased the friends to whom it was lent ; transcripts were made , and from one ...
... Bunyan ; sometimes when he soars in his flights of imaginative faith , he soars so smoothly that we hardly discern the quiver of a wing . Browne's manuscript pleased the friends to whom it was lent ; transcripts were made , and from one ...
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... Bunyan's Christian that he was crushed by a burden , a doomed and terrified inhabitant of the City of Destruction ; he resembled rather Bunyan's other pilgrim who quitted Vanity Fair to seek abiding joys in the Celestial city . He ...
... Bunyan's Christian that he was crushed by a burden , a doomed and terrified inhabitant of the City of Destruction ; he resembled rather Bunyan's other pilgrim who quitted Vanity Fair to seek abiding joys in the Celestial city . He ...
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Page 111 - I the unkind, ungrateful ? Ah my dear, I cannot look on thee. Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, Who made the eyes but I ? Truth, Lord, but I have marred them : let my shame Go where it doth deserve. And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame ? My dear, then I will serve.
Page 154 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 195 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 123 - But ah, my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And, when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.
Page 124 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
Page 107 - In another walk to Salisbury, he saw a poor man with a poorer horse, that was fallen under his load; they were both in distress, and needed present help, which Mr. Herbert perceiving, put off his canonical coat, and helped the poor man to unload, and after, to load his horse: The poor man blessed him for it, and he blessed the poor man ; and was so like the good Samaritan, that he gave him money to...
Page 195 - Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. If there be aught of presage in the mind, This day will be remarkable in my life By some great act, or of my days the last.
Page 128 - Temple," and aptly,' for in the Temple of God, under His wing, he led his life in St. Mary's Church, near St. Peter's college ; there he lodged under Tertullian's roof of angels ; there he made his nest more gladly than David's swallow near the house of God : where, like a primitive saint, he offered more prayers in the night than others usually offer in the day.
Page 71 - My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college; yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 298 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.