Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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... persons who read the first canto , not one in ten reaches the end of the first book , and not one in a hundred per- severes to the end of the poem . Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast . If the ...
... persons who read the first canto , not one in ten reaches the end of the first book , and not one in a hundred per- severes to the end of the poem . Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast . If the ...
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... persons clothed all in gold , the cross and the sepulchre , the steep hill and the pleasant arbour , the stately front of the House Beautiful by the wayside , the chained lions crouching in the porch , the low green valley of ...
... persons clothed all in gold , the cross and the sepulchre , the steep hill and the pleasant arbour , the stately front of the House Beautiful by the wayside , the chained lions crouching in the porch , the low green valley of ...
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... persons , learned and unlearned , proves that he has done well . The passages which it is most difficult to defend are those in which he altogether drops the allegory , and puts into the mouth of his pilgrims religious ejaculations and ...
... persons , learned and unlearned , proves that he has done well . The passages which it is most difficult to defend are those in which he altogether drops the allegory , and puts into the mouth of his pilgrims religious ejaculations and ...
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... persons afflicted with religious melancholy . Mr. Southey , who has no love for the Calvinists , admits that , if Calvinism had never worn a blacker appearance than in Bunyan's works , it would never have become a term of re- proach ...
... persons afflicted with religious melancholy . Mr. Southey , who has no love for the Calvinists , admits that , if Calvinism had never worn a blacker appearance than in Bunyan's works , it would never have become a term of re- proach ...
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... person of Jeffries . The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader , and in- valuable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language . The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people ...
... person of Jeffries . The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader , and in- valuable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language . The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people ...
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