 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 met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 99edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1856
...his younger days, 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 hie nails because he can not come at them. O that Blanco White would write in Spanish the progress... | |
 | Alvan Lamson, Ezra Stiles Gannett, George Putnam, George Edward Ellis - Religion - 1844
...feeble and broken, " grown so crazy and stiff in the joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go...biting his nails because he cannot come at them." The Irish Church trembles to its foundation, and half of England rebels against the payment of tithes... | |
 | John Bunyan - Fiction - 1857 - 375 pages
...his younger days, 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,...biting his nails, because he cannot come at them. So I saw that Christian went on his way, yet at the sight of the old man that sat in the mouth of the... | |
 | REV. H. M. DEXTER - 1858
...the old Giant has now grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go...biting his nails because he cannot come at them." There is one consoling lesson taught us by the review we have taken of the rise, progress and decay... | |
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...his younger days, 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...and biting his nails because he cannot come at them. So I saw that Christian went on his way ; yet, at the sight of the Old Man that sat in the mouth of... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1859 - 360 pages
...his younger days, 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. So I saw that Christian went on his way ; yet, at the sight of the old man, that sat in the mouth of... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1859
...his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in of their coming. Wherefore to it they went amain, and blows were hard on every side ; the them.4 : I would not be too confident, but I apprehend that by this second part of the valley we are... | |
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...and stiff in his joints, that he now can do little more than sit at the cave's mouth, grinning at the pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them. ' This is very much the case at the present moment with ' our most holy master, Pius the Ninth, Pope... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - Literary Criticism - 1860
...the Pilgrim's Progresa, where Bunyan says of old giant Pope, " He can now do littlo more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go...biting his nails, because he cannot come at them, saying, 'You will never mend till more of you be burned.' "* It is true the terrors of the auto da... | |
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