 | 1831 - 652 pages
...knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius,...turn-stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction, — the long line... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...the straight and narrow path, as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius,...turn-stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction ; the long line... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 pages
...which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius—that things which are not should be as though they were,...no resting-place, no turn-stile, with which we are riot perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...knows the strait and narrow path, as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius...turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction ; the long line... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...the straight and narrow path, as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward an/1 forward he ever-burning hatred of Strafford. That minister, in his letters to Land, VOL. I.— 17 are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 pages
...is the highest miracle of genius ; that2 things which are not should be as though they were, that2 the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. 5. And this miracle the tinker has wrought There is no ascent, no declivity, no restmg-place, no turnstile,... | |
 | Nathan Lewis Rice - 1849 - 334 pages
...is one of the most remarkable and successful efforts of the kind ever made. "This," says Macaulay, "is the highest miracle of genius — that things...another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought. * * * All the stages of the journey, all the forms which cross or overtake the pilgrims — giants... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...knows the strait and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius...should become the personal recollections of another. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...knows the strait and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius...should become the personal recollections of another. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius—that things which are not should be as though they were,...should become the personal recollections of another. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
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Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations... 
