Bunyan : John (1628-88), English preacher, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress.
... omnipotent motion. To return to my not so omnipotent movements, let me wind up by quoting two pieces of advice I have received on the subject of falling down. One is from the English allegorist Bunyan. He said: He that is down need fear no fall. But this would mean an extreme "Safety First" measure. I would have to keep sitting on the ground for ever and a day, or else walk on all fours ...
... prison in philosophic and literary work. There have been many famous literary gaolbirds, the two best known perhaps being the Spaniard, Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote, and the Englishman, John Bunyan, the author of The Pilgrim's Progress. I am not a man of letters, and I am not prepared to say that the many years I Page 384 have spent in gaol have been the sweetest in my life ...
... 278, 280, 359 Bridges, 88 Browning, Robert, 71 Buddha, 34, 57-8, 130, 133, 242, 267, 274, 277-9, 281-3, 298, 304 Buddhism, 242, 276-8, 280, 282-3 Page 371 Bunyan, 68 -The Pilgrim's Progress, 68 CANADA, 284 Cezanne, 152 Chandidasa,221-2 Char, Rene, 207 "Chanson des Etages", 206 Chattopadhyaya, Harindranath, 69n -The Strange Journey ...
... Karl 426 Bridges, Robert 92,377,408,460 Browning, Oscar 7 Browning, Robert 315,334,413,445 Buchanan, Scott 380 Bullett, Gerald 36 Bunyan, John 336 Camoens374,381,382 Camus, Albert 267,272 Canon Overton 305 Carpenter, Edward 438 Cassirer, Ernest 267 ...
... . That depression obstructs the inner light is a matter of general experience. The Gita says expressly, "Yoga should be practised persistently with a heart free from depression"— anirviṇṇacetasā . Bunyan in The Pilgrim's Progress symbolises it as the Slough of Despond, one of the perils of the way that has to be overcome. It is no doubt impossible to escape from attacks of depression, almost all ...
... That depression obstructs the inner light is a matter of general experience. The Gita says expressly, "Yoga should be practised persistently with a heart free from depression"— anirvinnacetasā. Bunyan in The Pilgrim's Progress symbolises it as the Slough of Despond, one of the perils of the way that has to be overcome. It is no doubt impossible to escape from attacks of depression, almost all ...
... Mara the Evil Being came to tempt Buddha, and Satan the Force of Darkness tendered in the desert diabolical advice to Jesus the Son of God? It is not well known that the saintly writer John Bunyan, the famous author of The Pilgrim's Progress, composed another spiritual allegory whose significant title is The Holy War of King Shaddai upon Diabolus. Shaddai is here, of course, the Divine; ...
... were, monovalent. An allegory is never mysticism. There is more mysticism in Wordsworth, even in Shelley and Keats, than in Spenser, for example, who stands in this respect on the same ground as Bunyan in his The Pilgrim's Progress. Take Wordsworth as a Nature-worshipper, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. 1 or Wordsworth the Pagan, Have ...
... it were, monovalent. An allegory is never mysticism. There is more mysticism in Wordsworth, even in Shelley and Keats, than in Spenser, for example, who stands in this respect on the same ground as Bunyan in his The Pilgrim's Progress. Take Wordsworth as a Nature-worshipper, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.¹ or Wordsworth the Pagan, Have ...
... poet, Prudentius Clemens, describes a battle of Virtues and Vices for the soul, and this would appear to have proved somewhat of an archetype for many a later poem or 'morality', including John Bunyan's The Holy War, which is of course in prose. The situation is best described in Brutus'words: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of ...
... symbols as follows: "Symbols may be of various kinds, there are those that are concealing images capable of intellectual interpretation but still different from either symbolic or allegorical figures". Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory. Arthurian legends may be the type of concealing images capable of intellectual interpretation. Prometheus Unbound of Shelley can be taken as a symbolic figure ...
... the base of it.... It can make us realize again the great power of humorous writing as a social force. Books of tears move the world as did Uncle Tom's Cabin, books of ecstasy enthrall the soul as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress did, but Cervantes's book helped to return to sanity the mind of a continent still a little delirious." 2 And an attentive student of the development of the spirit of Indian ...
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