 | Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 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 this miracle the tinker has wrought. All the stages of the journey, all the forms which cross or overtake the pilgrims, giants, and hobgoblins,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...imaginations of one mind should become the Eersonal recollections of another. And this miracle the tinker as wrought. There is no ascent, no declivity, no resting-place,...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... | |
 | John Bunyan, William Landels - 1870 - 406 pages
..." that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imagination of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And...has wrought. There is no ascent, no declivity, no resting place, no turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted." His characters, though some... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1870 - 432 pages
...that things which are not should be аз though they were, that the imagination of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And...has wrought. There is no ascent, no declivity, no resting place, no turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted." His characters, though some... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 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...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... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 592 pages
...produced the ' Paradise Lost,' and the other the ' Pilgrim's Progress." " imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought." But this great praise was not abstracted from Macaulay by wealth of antique learning, universal accuracy... | |
 | Library - 1873 - 1084 pages
...genius, that things that are not should be as if they were, and that the imaginations of one mind should it was still much at one ; for I could no more stir the canoe than I could or turnstyle, with which we are not perfectly acquainted." We could wish that every one might read... | |
 | Fiction - 1873 - 1086 pages
...genius, that things that are not should be as if they were, and that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And...There is no ascent, no declivity, no resting-place or turnstyle, with which "we are not perfectly acquainted." We could wish that every one might read... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 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...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... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...not should be as though they were,—that the imaginations of JOHN BUNYAN'S CABINET. one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought. There is no ascent,no declivity, no resting-place, no turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The... | |
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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... 
