 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...genius, 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...declivity, no resting-place, no turn-stile, with which we arc not perfectly acquainted. The wicket-gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the city... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...miracle, Bunyan, the tinker, has wrought. 3. There is no ascent, no ^declivity, no resting-place, no t turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted....it; the Interpreter's house and all its fair shows; all the stages of the journey, all the forms which cross or overtake the pilgrims, giants, and "'"hobgoblins,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...recollections of another. And this miraele the tinker has wrought. There is no aecent, no deelivity, no resting-place, no 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 - 1858 - 780 pages
...that things which Voi. 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. There is ne ascent, no declivity, no resting-place, no turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted.... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1860 - 136 pages
...that 1 things which are not should be as though they were, that 2 the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And...turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. 5. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction ; the long... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. Anc! this miracle the tinker has wrought. There is no ascent,...turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction; the longlineof... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...were, that tha imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And thii , as the devoted adherent of the Duke of Cumberland....last moment, they determined to vote in a body with acquaint ed. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - Benevolence - 1861 - 412 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... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - Authors, English - 1861 - 400 pages
...are not fhould be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind mould become the perfonal recollections of another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought. There is no afcent, no declivity, no refting-place, no turn-ftile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted.... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1862 - 886 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...are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket-gate, and tho desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction — the long line of road, аз... | |
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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... 
