 | John Bunyan - Theology - 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...greater favorite than "Jack the Giant-killer." Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...declivity, 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... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1851 - 392 pages
...greater favourite than Jack the Giant Killer. Every reader knows the strait and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...greater favorite than " Jack the Giant Killer." Every reader knows the strait and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...This is the highest miracle of genius, that things that are not should be as though • they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...greater favourite than Jack the Oiant-Killer. Every reader knows the straight and narrow path, as well as VOL. L— 17 are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...favorite than Jack the Giant-Killer. Every reader knows the straight and narrow path, as well as lie knows a road in which he has gone backward, and forward...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... | |
 | Art - 1853 - 444 pages
...as well as he knows the road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is tho highest miracle of genius, — that things which are...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...greater favorite than "Jack the Giant-killer." Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...the highest miracle of genius — that things which arc not should be as though they were; that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...Gianl-Kilter. i Every reader knows the straight and narrow • path as well as he knows a. road in which he I has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This...genius, 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.... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...Killer." Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows the road in which he hag gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is...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... | |
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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... 
