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... thought I , if that you breed so fast , I'll put you by yourselves , lest you at last Should prove ad infinitum , and eat out The book that I already am about . Well , so I did ; but yet I did not think To show to all the world my pen ...
... thought I , if that you breed so fast , I'll put you by yourselves , lest you at last Should prove ad infinitum , and eat out The book that I already am about . Well , so I did ; but yet I did not think To show to all the world my pen ...
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... thought he , I see the dangers that Mistrust and Timorous were driven back by . ( The lions were chained , but he saw not the chains . ) Then he was afraid , and thought also himself to go back after them , for he thought nothing but ...
... thought he , I see the dangers that Mistrust and Timorous were driven back by . ( The lions were chained , but he saw not the chains . ) Then he was afraid , and thought also himself to go back after them , for he thought nothing but ...
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... thought it made my heart ache as he was telling of it ; but yet I am glad I heard it . Piety . Was that all you saw at the house of the Interpreter ? cause , by what I perceive , this place was | tains his work of grace in the heart ...
... thought it made my heart ache as he was telling of it ; but yet I am glad I heard it . Piety . Was that all you saw at the house of the Interpreter ? cause , by what I perceive , this place was | tains his work of grace in the heart ...
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... thought he heard a company of fiends coming forward to meet him , he stopped , and began to muse what he had best to do . Sometimes he had half a thought to go back ; then again he thought he might be half - way through the valley . He ...
... thought he heard a company of fiends coming forward to meet him , he stopped , and began to muse what he had best to do . Sometimes he had half a thought to go back ; then again he thought he might be half - way through the valley . He ...
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... thought again , this Shame tells me what men are ; but he tells me nothing what God or the word of God is . And I thought , moreover , that at the day of doom , we shall not be doomed to death or life according to the hectoring spirits ...
... thought again , this Shame tells me what men are ; but he tells me nothing what God or the word of God is . And I thought , moreover , that at the day of doom , we shall not be doomed to death or life according to the hectoring spirits ...
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Page 490 - GOOD people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were...
Page 160 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought his battles who now will be my rewarder. When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the river side, into which as he went he said, Death, where is thy sting?
Page 67 - Now there was, not far from the place where they lay, a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair; and it was in his grounds they now were sleeping: wherefore he, getting up in the morning early, and walking up and down in his fields, caught Christian and Hopeful asleep in his grounds. Then, with a grim and surly voice, he bid them awake ; and asked them whence they were, and what they did in his grounds. They told him they were pilgrims, and that they had lost their way....
Page 618 - As for yourself (continued the king) who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 75 - Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets,...
Page 68 - The time may come that may give us a happy release ; but let us not be our own murderers. With these words, Hopeful at present did moderate the mind of his brother ; so they continued together (in the dark) that day, in their sad and doleful condition. Well, towards evening, the Giant goes down into the dungeon again, to see if his prisoners had taken his counsel ; but when he came there he found them alive ; and truly, alive was all ; for now, what for want of bread and water, and by reason of the...
Page 46 - PAGAN has been dead many a day; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
Page 69 - Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed ; but that gate, as it opened, made such a creaking, that it waked Giant Despair, who, hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them. 'Then they went on, and came to the King's highway, and so were safe, because they were out of his jurisdiction.
Page 56 - All that cometh is vanity." This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of ancient standing; I will show you the original of it. Almost five thousand years agone, there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City as these two honest persons are: and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity,...
Page 261 - I could think of; and he came nearer and nearer, kneeling down every ten or twelve steps, in token of acknowledgment for my saving his life. I smiled at him, and looked pleasantly, and beckoned to him to come still nearer. At length he came close to me, and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head. This, it seems, was in token of swearing to be my slave for ever.