Studies in the English of BunyanJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1872 - 142 |
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adjective adverbial combination allied to Lat Anglo-Sax Anglo-Saxon attributive combination battle of Naseby Bedford Bible blessed called Christian clothed CO-ORDINATE CLAUSE compound sentence Copulate co-ordinate copulative counsel dative denoting devil discourse dream edition English English language Evangelist expression face fear force gate geat genitive German Giant Despair grammatical Grimm's Law haste hath heart heaven holy idiom infinitive Jesus Christ John Bunyan language Latin light look Lord means mercy methought mind ness neuter noun objective combination participle person PHILOLOGICAL phrase Pilgrim's Progress pray preach predicative combination prefix preposition prison pron pronoun rags Ranters RHETORICAL Scriptures sign of adverbial sins sometimes soul speak spirit subordinate clause substantive swearing syntax temptation thaet thee therein things thou thought tion tive unto verb vesan walking Weak verbs whence wherefore whither wife wilderness word writing
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Strona 53 - As I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream.
Strona 48 - There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Strona 122 - Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence; so when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done, to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners, and cast them into his dungeon for trespassing on his grounds. Then he asked her also what he had best to do further to them.
Strona 126 - Now night being come again, and the giant and his wife being in bed, she asked him concerning the prisoners, and if they had taken his counsel : to which he replied, They are sturdy rogues, they choose rather to bear all hardships than to make away with themselves.
Strona 22 - Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?
Strona 11 - 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 look down upon me, as being very hotly displeased with me, and as if he did severely threaten me with some grievous punishment for those and other ungodly practices.
Strona 45 - Witty, and well employed, and, like thy Lord, Speaking in parables his slighted word ; I name thee not. lest so despised a name Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame...
Strona 125 - Well, towards evening, the Giant goes down into the dungeon again, to see if his prisoners had taken his counsel ; but when he came there he found them alive ; and truly, alive was all ; for now, what for want of bread and water, and by reason of the wounds they received when he beat them, they could do little but *E 2°4 breathe.
Strona 128 - I fear, said she, that they live in hope that some will come to relieve them, or that they have picklocks about them, by the means of which they hope to escape. And sayest thou so, my dear? said the giant; I will therefore search them in the morning.
Strona 129 - ... castle-yard, and with his key opened that door also. After he went to the iron gate, for that must be opened too, but that lock went very hard, yet the key did open it. Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed ; but that gate as it opened made such a creaking, that it waked Giant Despair, who, hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them.