Studies in the English of BunyanJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1872 - 142页 |
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adjective adverbial combination allied to Lat Anglo-Sax Anglo-Saxon attributive combination Bedford Bible blessed Bunyan called cannabis Christian CO-ORDINATE CLAUSE compound sentence Copulate co-ordinate counsel dative denoting discourse dream edition English English language Evangelist expression Extra cloth face Faery Queen fear gate geat genitive Germ German Giant Despair grammatical Grimm's Law haste hath heart heaven holy idiom infinitive J. B. LIPPINCOTT Jesus Christ John Bunyan language Latin light look Lord means mercy mind ness neuter noun objective combination participle person PHILOLOGICAL phrase Pilgrim's Progress pray preach prefix preposition Prescott's prison pron pronoun PUBLICATIONS OF J. B. Ranters RHETORICAL SAMUEL WHITE BAKER Scriptures sign of adverbial sins sometimes soul speak spirit subordinate substantive swearing syntax temptation thaet thee therein things thou thought tion tive unto verb walking Weak verbs wherefore whither wife wilderness word writing
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第66页 - 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. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and, as he read, he wept, and trembled; and, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do?
第40页 - But before I had got thus far out of these ' my temptations, I did greatly long to see some ' ancient godly man's experience, who had writ ' some hundreds of years before I was born ; for ' those who had writ in our days, I thought, but I ' desire them now to pardon me, that they had writ ' only that which others felt, or else had, through ' the strength of their wits and parts, studied tu ' answer siich objections as they perceived others ' were perplexed with, without going down them
第83页 - 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. 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.
第135页 - 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.
第35页 - 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...
第61页 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a u 3 few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
第61页 - 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.
第18页 - For my descent then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsiderable generation ; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.
第27页 - But how it came to pass, I know not; I did from this time forward, so leave my swearing, that it was a great wonder to myself to observe it; and whereas before I knew not how to speak unless I put an oath before, and another behind, to make my words have authority; now I could, without it, speak better, and with more pleasantness than ever I could before.
第30页 - Thus, therefore, when I had heard and considered what they said, I left them, and went about my employment again, but their talk and discourse went with me; also my heart would tarry with them, for I was greatly affected with their words, both because by them I was convinced that I wanted the true tokens of a truly godly man, and also, because by them I was convinced of the happy and blessed condition of him that was such a one.