 | John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 450 Seiten
...learned since, that Pagan has been dead many a day, and as for 'the other, though he be alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes...days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he now can do little more thaw sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting... | |
 | 1843 - 628 Seiten
...ducal, or any other dignity whatever." It matters nothing, to say with honest Bunyan, that giant Pope, " by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, is now grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can do little but grin and bite his nails." The... | |
 | 1855 - 400 Seiten
...is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes be hath met with, grown so crazy and stir in his joints that he can now do little more than...biting his nails because he cannot come at them.' " Of the movement in the Armenian church, Mr. Walker cannot speak with the same confidence. " Yet some,"... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Hawker - 1822 - 620 Seiten
...since, that Pagan has been dead many a day ; (d) and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes...days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he now can do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting... | |
 | 692 Seiten
...broad lines of genius, the state of popery at that period " Giant Pope is, by reason of age, and also the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger...grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, hecause he cannot come at them." Though two popish princes were then at the head of the English people,... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1830 - 628 Seiten
...brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he now can do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning...biting his nails because he cannot come at them." (Pilgrim's Progress, Part I.) It is by no means true, as we are sometimes disposed to flatter ourselves,... | |
 | 1830 - 626 Seiten
...Bunyan is accomplished in this country. " Though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger...days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he now can do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 630 Seiten
...gospel to engage in active and arduous warfare against the old giant Pope, whom he describes as being, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes...cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biling his nails because he cannot come at them. It would have tended to stay that unnatural civil... | |
 | 1841 - 596 Seiten
...gospel to engage in active and arduous warfare against the old giant Pope, whom he describes as being, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes...days, grown so crazy and .stiff in his joints that be can now do little more than sit in bis cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biling... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 Seiten
...learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many a day; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he has met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he now can do little... | |
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... grown so' crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them. 
