 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...become the personal recollections of another. And tliis miracle the tinker has wrought. There is n« he wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction; the long line... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...that things which are not should be as though t lu- y were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And...Destruction ; the long line of road, as straight as a rule cun make it ; the Interpreter's house and all its fair shows ; the prisoner in the iron cage ; the... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1853 - 120 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Art - 1853 - 444 pages
...that things which are not should be as though they were,— that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another, — and this miracle the tinker has wrought This early estimate by the great essayist has been confirmed by his more mature judgment in the " History... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...that things which are not, should be as though they were ; that the imaginations of one mind, should become the personal recollections of another. And this miracle, the tinker* has wrought. 3. There is no ascent, no + declivity, no resting-place, no turn stile, with which we are not perfectly... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1854 - 120 pages
...thai8 the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. 5. And tlu's miracle the tinker has wrought There is no ascent,...turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swainp which separates it from the City of Destruction ; the long line... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...that things which are not, should be as though they were — that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another — and this miracle the tinker has wrought The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable, as a study, to every person who... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...that things which are not, should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And...which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket-gate of the Desolate Swamp, which separates it from the Ciiy of Destruction ; the long line of road as straight... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...things which VOL. L—17 are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And...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 - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...things which v«u L-17 are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And...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... | |
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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... 
