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CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) thoughtfulness which is not sad, though like all quiet moods it is akin to sadness, and ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. While there are undoubted t ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) "On His Deceased Wife," "To the Nightingale," "On Reaching the Age of Twenty-three," "T ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) Milton protested against this, as against every other form of tyranny, and hisAreopagit ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) a drama, therefore,Paradise Lostcould never have been a suc- cess; but as poetry, with ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) spirits. His story is continued in Book VI. In Book VII we read the story of the creati ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) theology or the descriptions of Bible scenes, that chiefly in- terests us. Thus Milton ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) For that celestial light? Be it so, since He Who now is sovran can dispose and bid What ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) Divina Commediaof Dante, and why it is generally accepted by critics as the greatest si ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) ing of his works. Entirely apart from the interest of its subject and treatment, one ma ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) vivid imagination, which saw visions, allegories, parables, revelations, in every commo ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) wretch," as he tells us, who reprimanded him for his profan- ity. The reproach of the p ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) experiments with the Almighty in order to put his salvation to the proof. As he goes al ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) the Established Church and government. His judges pleaded with Bunyan to conform with t ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) which was probably written in prison, but which for some reason he did not publish till ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) a friend in Reading. He died there a few days later, and was laid away in Bunhill Field ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) lows, in which are pictured many of our own spiritual ex- periences. There is the Sloug ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) grace, and no writer has equaled Bunyan in making this doc- trine understood." And this ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) choly: I have ... new books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, sto- ries, whole catalogu ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) for use or ornament, till his mind resembled a huge curiosity shop. All his life he suf ...