 | John Bunyan - 1859 - 976 Seiten
...spit C a) >>-5 XP THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOE HIS BOOK. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should...writing of the way And race of saints, in this our gospel-day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory, In more than... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1859 - 552 Seiten
...he scorned attempting to make them more elegant. When at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode ; nay, 1 liad undertook To make another ; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I thus begun. And thus... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1860 - 370 Seiten
...JOURNEY, . . . 18i THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. ,]HEN at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In snch a mode : nay, I had undertook To make another ; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1861 - 450 Seiten
...write a guide to pilgrims through time to eternity, and that it should be dated from " the den." " And thus it was : I writing of the way And race of saints, in this our gospel-day, Fell suddenly into an allegory Ahout their journey and the way to glory." Any one to whom... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1861 - 840 Seiten
...Mount Zion. While writing his own spiritual pilgrimage, his great work broke upon his imagination. "And thus it was: I writing of the way, And race of aaints, in this our gospel d;iy, fell suddenly into an allrgory About their journey, and (lie way to... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1862 - 886 Seiten
....rf.li lui " I« THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should...writing of the way And race of saints, in this our gospel-day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory, In more than... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - 510 Seiten
...bore him away into a new and more marvellous track : Now when at first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should...when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun. Precisely in the manner of spiritual suggestion ; the whole plan of his work was not revealed to him... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - 558 Seiten
...bore him away into a new and more marvellous track : Now when at first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should...when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun. Precisely in the manner of spiritual suggestion ; the whola plan of his work was not revealed to him... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 Seiten
...When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all shiuld make a little book, In such a mode ; nay, I had undertook...done. Before I was aware, I this begun : And thus it wat— I, writing of the way, And race of saints, in this our gospel day. Fell suddenly into an allegory,... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1863 - 390 Seiten
...sagacity ; as he says in his apology for his book, — ' When at first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little Book In such a mode.' "The Book is one of the Golden Treasury Series, with a vignette title and illustrations by Stothard.... | |
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WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode : nay, I had undertook To make another ; which when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun. 
