Pilgrimages to English ShrinesArthur Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 |
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... character , prove that it is far older than the days of Bunyan ; it might have been one of the barns or milk- houses , or stables , in which the good old Bedford Puritan wept and prayed ; he asks of his spiritual children , in his ...
... character , prove that it is far older than the days of Bunyan ; it might have been one of the barns or milk- houses , or stables , in which the good old Bedford Puritan wept and prayed ; he asks of his spiritual children , in his ...
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... character by its flitting ' to the old church tower , which just at the moment tolled out eight in its deep sepulchral voice . Before the chime was finished , the whole character of the place was changed ; the flitting light was ...
... character by its flitting ' to the old church tower , which just at the moment tolled out eight in its deep sepulchral voice . Before the chime was finished , the whole character of the place was changed ; the flitting light was ...
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... character ; for ourselves , we can only say that those it was our good fortune to meet on our pilgrimage shared our enthusiasm . It was wrong to be disappointed that the poor lace - makers did not feel the influence of the sacred ground ...
... character ; for ourselves , we can only say that those it was our good fortune to meet on our pilgrimage shared our enthusiasm . It was wrong to be disappointed that the poor lace - makers did not feel the influence of the sacred ground ...
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... character , that fitted him as a wise master - builder , for his work with other souls , and as an experienced guide , to mark for others the road that leads to the Lamb . ' 6 Mr. Scott , in the life of John Bunyan affixed to one ...
... character , that fitted him as a wise master - builder , for his work with other souls , and as an experienced guide , to mark for others the road that leads to the Lamb . ' 6 Mr. Scott , in the life of John Bunyan affixed to one ...
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... character had also undergone a great spiritual change ) was pastor at Bedford , and after his death Bunyan went ... characters of these two men , but of that we have not space to write , yet the coincidence is singular . Bunyan's ...
... character had also undergone a great spiritual change ) was pastor at Bedford , and after his death Bunyan went ... characters of these two men , but of that we have not space to write , yet the coincidence is singular . Bunyan's ...
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Abney amid ancient Andrew Marvel Antwerp artist beautiful Bedford beneath Bristol Bunyan called Caxton character charity Charles Chatterton Chequers 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 imagination Isaac Watts John Bunyan John Hampden John Kyrle John Stow King Kyrle labour 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 record reign rendered residence royal says scene seems Sir Nicholas Sir Thomas Gresham sister spirit stood Street Thomas Chatterton thought tomb trees venerable village walls Watts wife worthy young
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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.