Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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... mind's eye . The valley is a cavern : the quagmire is a lake : the straight path runs zigzag : and Christian appears like a speck in the darkness of the immense vault . We miss , too , those hideous forms which make so striking a part ...
... mind's eye . The valley is a cavern : the quagmire is a lake : the straight path runs zigzag : and Christian appears like a speck in the darkness of the immense vault . We miss , too , those hideous forms which make so striking a part ...
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... mind on the House of Pride and the House of Temperance . One un- pardonable fault , the fault of tediousness , pervades the whole of the Fairy Queen . We become sick of cardinal virtues and deadly sins , and long for the society of ...
... mind on the House of Pride and the House of Temperance . One un- pardonable fault , the fault of tediousness , pervades the whole of the Fairy Queen . We become sick of cardinal virtues and deadly sins , and long for the society of ...
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... works of many celebrated authors , men are mere personifications . We have not a jealous man , but jealousy , not a traitor , but perfidy , not a patriot , but came men . patriotism . The mind of Bunyan , SOUTHEY'S EDITION.
... works of many celebrated authors , men are mere personifications . We have not a jealous man , but jealousy , not a traitor , but perfidy , not a patriot , but came men . patriotism . The mind of Bunyan , SOUTHEY'S EDITION.
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... mind of Bunyan , on the contrary , was so ima- ginative that personifications , when he dealt with them , be- A dialogue between two qualities , in his dream , has more dramatic effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most ...
... mind of Bunyan , on the contrary , was so ima- ginative that personifications , when he dealt with them , be- A dialogue between two qualities , in his dream , has more dramatic effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most ...
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... mind of an illiterate man , whose affections were warm , whose nerves were irritable , whose ima- gination was ungovernable , and who was under the influence of the strongest religious excitement . In whatever age Bunyan had lived , the ...
... mind of an illiterate man , whose affections were warm , whose nerves were irritable , whose ima- gination was ungovernable , and who was under the influence of the strongest religious excitement . In whatever age Bunyan had lived , the ...
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