The English Novel Before the Nineteenth Century: Excerpts from Representative Types

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Annette Brown Hopkins
Ginn, 1915 - 794 Seiten
 

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Seite 151 - quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty ! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. Then said Hopeful, That is good news, good brother ; pluck it out of thy bosom,
Seite 132 - ave a desperate struggle or two, and got out of the mire on that side of the slough which was next to his own house so away he went, and Christian saw him no more. Wherefore Christian was left to tumble in the Slough of Despond alone: but still he endeavoured to struggle
Seite 128 - I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back (Isa. Ixiv. 6; Luke xiv. 33; Ps. xxxviii. 4; Hab. ii. 2; Acts xvi. 31). I looked, and saw him open the book and read therein; and, as
Seite 135 - even as they entered into the fair, all the people in the fair were moved, and the town itself as it were in a hubbub about them ; and that for several reasons : for — First, The pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair. The
Seite 134 - companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long:
Seite 135 - of princes himself, when here, went through this town to his own country, and that upon a fair day too; yea, and as I think, it was Beelzebub, the chief lord of this fair, that invited him to buy of his vanities; yea, would have made . him lord of the fair, would he but have done him
Seite 148 - chooseth strangling rather than life," and the grave is more easy for me than this dungeon (Job. vii. 15). Shall we be ruled by the Giant ? HOPE. Indeed, our present condition is dreadful, and death would be far more welcome to me than thus for ever to abide
Seite 143 - Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive; For, though they killed thee, thou art yet alive. Now I saw in my dream, that Christian went not forth alone, for there was one whose name was Hopeful (being made so by the beholding of Christian and Faithful in their ,,. . words and
Seite 128 - In this plight, therefore, he went home and refrained himself as long as he could, that his wife and children should not perceive his distress; but he could not be silent long, because that his trouble increased. Wherefore at length he brake his mind to his wife and children; and thus he began to talk to them. O
Seite 133 - dream, that a man came to him, whose name was Help, and asked him, What he did there ? CHR. Sir, said Christian, I was bid go this way by a man called Evangelist, who directed me also to yonder gate, that I might escape the wrath to come; and as I was going thither I fell in here.

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