Bunyan's Country: Studies in the Bedfordshire Topography of the Pilgrim's ProgressVirtue, 1901 - 182 Seiten |
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Abbey Amand Ampthill ancient ART JOURNAL Barton-le-Cley Bedford Bedfordshire beneath Bishop Bruce building built Bunyan describes Bunyan tells BUNYAN'S COUNTRY called castle keep Celestial City chalk Chiltern Hills Christian and Hopeful church Clophill cloth gilt Countess cross Crown Deadman's Delectable Mountains Doubting Castle doubtless Dunstable Earl earthwork Elstow Green fair garden gate gate-house gilt edges Houghton Conquest Houghton House House Beautiful Illustrations Inigo Jones IVY LANE John Bunyan Lady Abbess Lady Pembroke Lidlington LONDON look Lord mansion meadows miles Millbrook Millbrook Gorge mind Misericorde mound nuns occupied Ouse valley parish park passed Pilgrim's Progress pilgrims plain pleasant present day pretty Pulloxhill REESE LIBRARY religious ridge river River Flit road round ruins scenes seen shire side Sidney sisters stands stone stood Totternhoe tower town UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA upper portion Vanity Fair village VIRTUE AND COMPANY walked walls Wootton
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Seite 68 - So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more. Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said with a merry heart, "He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.
Seite 166 - Now just as the Gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold, the City shone like the Sun; the Streets also were paved with Gold, and in them walked many men, with Crowns on their heads, Palms in their hands, and golden Harps to sing praises withal. There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord.
Seite 90 - The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim : And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings, And a staunch old heart has he.
Seite 68 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell ? " At this I was put to an exceeding maze ; wherefore leaving my cat upon the ground I looked up to heaven, and was, as if I had, with the eyes of my understanding, seen the Lord Jesus looking down upon me, as being very hotly displeased with me...
Seite 166 - ... let in the men, I looked in after them ; and behold, the city shone like the sun, the streets also were paved with gold, and in them walked many men, with crowns on their heads, palms in their hands, and golden harps to sing praises withal. There were also of them that had wings ; and they answered one another without intermission, saying, " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord.
Seite 107 - And children coming home from school, Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Seite 77 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Seite 8 - 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 of one mind should become the personal...
Seite 157 - Beulah, whose air was very sweet and pleasant, the way lying directly through it, they solaced themselves there for a season ; yea, here they heard continually the singing of birds, and saw every day the flowers appear in the earth, and heard the voice of the turtle in the land.
Seite 165 - They therefore went up here with much agility and speed, though the foundation upon which the City was framed, was higher than the clouds. They therefore went up through the Region of the Air, sweetly talking as they went, being comforted, because they safely got over the River, and had such glorious Companions to attend them.