Pilgrimages to English ShrinesArthur Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 |
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... feeling for his subject , never visited Bunyan's birth - place , and Mr. Philip must have looked upon what is still called the Pilgrim's Cottage with a poet's eye , when he suffered the vignette décorée , which certainly adds to the ...
... feeling for his subject , never visited Bunyan's birth - place , and Mr. Philip must have looked upon what is still called the Pilgrim's Cottage with a poet's eye , when he suffered the vignette décorée , which certainly adds to the ...
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... feeling that this is really the Elstow of Bunyan's time . We must pause at the threshold of his cottage , for though no vestige remains of the actual walls that heard his infant wail when he entered into this world of strife and tumult ...
... feeling that this is really the Elstow of Bunyan's time . We must pause at the threshold of his cottage , for though no vestige remains of the actual walls that heard his infant wail when he entered into this world of strife and tumult ...
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... feelings by its solemn stillness , and calls up the dearest and purest memories to confirm or disprove those fancies which , though the offspring of facts , are frequently unworthy their descent . Some might count that as the very walls ...
... feelings by its solemn stillness , and calls up the dearest and purest memories to confirm or disprove those fancies which , though the offspring of facts , are frequently unworthy their descent . Some might count that as the very walls ...
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... feeling to infuse into her nature and her actions a spirit of persecution to the full as bitter as that which stirred her far less famous sister . Lombard Street is as dingy now as the gravest citizen could desire ; and its heavy ...
... feeling to infuse into her nature and her actions a spirit of persecution to the full as bitter as that which stirred her far less famous sister . Lombard Street is as dingy now as the gravest citizen could desire ; and its heavy ...
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... feelings - to record the prominent places he so highly and honour- ably filled . That he was a good and tender husband , is evident from his frequent mention of his wife in his correspondence ; and he had also much affection for a ...
... feelings - to record the prominent places he so highly and honour- ably filled . That he was a good and tender husband , is evident from his frequent mention of his wife in his correspondence ; and he had also much affection for a ...
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Abney amid ancient Andrew Marvel Antwerp artist beautiful Bedford beneath Bristol Bunyan called Caxton character charity Charles Chatterton Chequers Court church churchyard Colston's School cottage Court Cromwell daughter death died duty dwelling Elizabeth England English engraved erected eyes faith father feeling Gainsborough garden genius grave Gresham College Hall Hannah heart Hogarth honour Isaac Watts John Bunyan John Hampden John Kyrle John Stow King Kyrle labour Lady Mary Lady Mary Grey letters lived London look Lord Lord Shaftesbury Marvel master memory Merchant mind monument nature never noble painted painter parish passed picture Pilgrim's Progress pilgrimage poems poet poor portrait prison Queen reign rendered residence royal says scene seems Shaftesbury Sir Thomas Gresham sister spirit stood Street Thomas Chatterton thought tomb trees venerable village walls Watts wife worthy young
Popular passages
Page 93 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
Page 108 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Page 11 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Page 47 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 62 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them, Rev.
Page 236 - Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was a house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to...
Page 237 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.
Page 288 - never drew a more ludicrous distortion, both of attitude and physiognomy, than this effect occasioned: nor was there wantin'g beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth, in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet...
Page 87 - Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 1 St.
Page 88 - expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way.