| William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pagine
...all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! BUNYAN'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. flHE characteristic peculiarity of the "Pilgrim's Progress"...Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears. There are some good allegories in Johnson's works, and some of still higher merit by Addison. In these... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 682 pagine
...in the enchanted ground of Alcina, or the mansion of Aladdin. But he should avoid Milton and Bunyan. The characteristic peculiarity of the Pilgrim's Progress...Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears. There are some good allegories in Johnson's works, and some of still higher merit by Addison. In these... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 468 pagine
...in the enchanted ground of Alcina, or the mansion of Aladdin. But he should avoid Milton and Bunyan. The characteristic peculiarity of the " Pilgrim's...Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears. There are some good allegories in Johnson's works, and some of still higher merit by Addison. In these... | |
| James Mollison Milne - 1900 - 400 pagine
...therefore permit me to repeat emphatically that Marley was as dead as a door nail. — Dickens. 5. The allegory of Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears. — Macaulay. 6. His blood has been very hot, but it has had time to cool. — Cooper. 7. As a general... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 446 pagine
...in the enchanted ground of Alcina, or the mansion of Aladdin. But he should avoid Milton and Bunyan. The characteristic peculiarity of the " Pilgrim's...Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears. There are some good allegories in Johnson's works, and some of still higher merit by Addison. In these... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pagine
...in the enchanted ground of Alcina, or the mansion of Aladdin. But he should avoid Milton and Bunyan. The characteristic peculiarity of the " Pilgrim's...Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears. There are some good allegories in Johnson's works, and some of still higher merit by Addison. In these... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 506 pagine
...' » r— :' f- j •' ;•' >tt ^L'U /{•' : ;' f" £ PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. (Essay on John Bunyan.) THE characteristic peculiarity of the Pilgrim's Progress...it is the only work of its kind which possesses a human interest. Other allegories also amuse the fancy. The\ allegory of Bunyan has been read by many... | |
| Jonathan Rigdon - 1903 - 312 pagine
...possible that we are wrong. (32) Let it be understood that I will pursue this course no longer. (33) The characteristic peculiarity of the Pilgrim's Progress is that it is the only work of the kind that possesses a strong human interest. (34) Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never... | |
| Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1897 - 318 pagine
...infinitive mode, modifying let. Ill — 6. The characteristic peculiarity of Pilgrim's Progress is,1 that it is* the only work of its kind which possesses a strong human interest. NOTE. — All that follows is1 is the attribute of the main clause. 112 — 7. And now, farewell !... | |
| William Fewsmith, Edgar Arthur Singer - 1905 - 216 pagine
...of ten years. Strange, that after a lapse of many years that occurrence should be so familiar to me. The characteristic peculiarity of the "Pilgrim's Progress"...its kind which possesses a strong human interest. Oh, my lord! must I then leave you? Earnestness, self-sacrifice, endurance, and benevolence, quicken... | |
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