 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 pages
...in tempting of me ; neither did I play, when I sank as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me ; wherefore I may not play, in relating of them." Dante was a stern, just man. One cannot but admire the intrepidity, the audacity even, with which he... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 548 pages
...in tempting of me ; neither did I play, when I sank as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me ; wherefore I may not play, in relating of them." Dante was a stern, just man. One cannot but admire the intrepidity, the audacity even, with which he... | |
 | 1847 - 910 pages
...do ; hut I dare not. God did not play in tempting of me ; neither did I play when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me, wherefore I may not play in relating of them ; but he plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was. He that Hketh it, let him receive it ; and he... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 324 pages
...neither did I play when I sunk, as it were, into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell took hold on me ; wherefore, I may not play in relating of them,...plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." This book, as well as " Pilgrim's Progress," was written in Bedford prison, and was designed especially... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 326 pages
...when I sunk, as it were, into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell took hold on me ; where* fore, I may not play in relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." This book, as well as " Pilgrim's Progress,'1 written in Bedford prison, and was designed especially... | |
 | Stephen B. Wickens - 1853 - 364 pages
...tempting of me ; neither did I play when I sunk as into the bottomless pit, when the angels of hell caught hold upon me ; wherefore I may not play in...honey are beyond this wilderness. God be merciful to * He is here probably alluding to various places in which he had met with them for worship. Sec p.... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1857 - 392 pages
...in tempting of me ; neither did I play, when I sunk as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me : wherefore I may not play in...doth not, let him produce a better. — Farewell. MY DEAE CHILDREN, The milk and honey are beyond this wilderness. God be merciful to you, and grant that... | |
 | John Baillie - 1857 - 380 pages
...bottomless pit — when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me : wherefore," he adds, " I may not play when relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." His " fears, and doubts, and sad months" were " as the head of Goliath in his hand," and the very sight... | |
 | Rev. John Baillie - 1858 - 370 pages
...sank as into the bottomless pit— when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me: wherefore," he adds, " I may not play in relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." His " fears, and doubts, and sad months," were " as the head of Goliath in his hand;" and the very... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1859 - 552 pages
...play in tempting of me ; neither did I play when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me, where fore I may not play in relating of them ; but be plain...; and he that doth not, let him produce a better." The very extreme plainness of this work, adds to its power ; never was the inward life of any being... | |
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God did not play in tempting of me; neither did I play, when I sunk as into the bottomless pit, when the PANGS OF HELL CAUGHT HOLD UPON ME; wherefore I may not play in relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was; he that... 
