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" 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 Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany - Page 60
1844
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 117

1865 - 600 pages
...brushes that he met with in his younger days, he was grown so crazv and stiff in his joints that he could do little more than sit in his cave's mouth grinning...they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot get at them." * N^or did the stern resolution to have no more of these old usurpations in any degree...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 117

1865 - 600 pages
...brushes that he met with in his younger days, he was grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he could do little more than sit in his cave's mouth grinning...they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot get at them.' * Nor did the stern resolution to have no more of these old usurpations in any degree...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 540 pages
...of the many shrewd brushes that he bas met with in bis younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in...biting his nails, because he cannot come at them. UTT. ANGL. n — 26 Ces allégories sont des hallucinations aussi nettes, aussi complètes et aussi...
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The Papal Drama: A Historical Essay

Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1866 - 536 pages
...shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can do little more than sit in his cave's mouth grinning...and biting his nails because he cannot come at them. — Pilgrim's Progress. the peace of Westphalia through the latter half of the seventeenth century,...
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The Churches of Christendom

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1884 - 448 pages
...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 sit in...cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by.' Macaulay says of the Church of Rome : ' When we reflect on the tremendous assaults she has survived,...
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The Greek Church

sir James Cameron Lees - 1884 - 448 pages
...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 sit in...cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by.' Macaulay says of the Church of Rome : ' When we reflect on the tremendous assaults she has survived,...
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The Progress of the Church of Christ in England and Wales During the Past ...

Charles Williams - 1884 - 60 pages
...Bunyan's pilgrim saw Giant Pope, " 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...biting his nails because he cannot come at them." In many places, notably in hundreds of villages, bigotry is rampant, regarding Dissenters with scorn...
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The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come

John Bunyan - 1885 - 434 pages
...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 sit in...pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he can not come at them. So I saw that Christian went on his way ; yet at the sight of the old man that...
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History of English Literature: By H.A. Taine, Translated by H. Van ..., Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 pages
...of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his youngei days, grown so crazy, and still' in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his Cave's mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they gc by, und biting hit oaila. because he cnunot come at them. 1 KOI instance Hollar's work, Cities of...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 49

1886 - 922 pages
...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 sit in...biting his nails because he cannot come at them." That appeared 208 years ago ; and yet here have I been lecturing to you on one great man who has given...
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