FULLER.-BUNYAN.- BAXTER. 213 He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. Life of Duke of Alva. JOHN BUNYAN. 1628-1688. And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. Some said, 'John, print it,' others said, 'Not so,' Part i. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. The house Beautiful. Ibid. Ibid. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Ile that is down needs fear no fall.1 Ibid. Part ii. RICHARD BAXTER. 1615-1691. I preached as never sure to preach again, Love breathing Thanks and Praise. 1 Compare Butler, Hudibras. Page 217. I see them walking in an air of glory My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, They are all gone. Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark! And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, Ibid. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep. 1 Napier's Memoir of Montrose, Vol. i. App. xxxiv. That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. Ibid. Napier's Montrose and the Covenanters, Vol. ii. p. 566. The more popular reading is given by Scott, Legend of Montrose, Ch. xv.: I'll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword. Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle. Line 51. He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and southwest side. Line 67. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Line 81. And wisely tell what hour o' the day Line 125. Line 131. Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. Line 145. He knew what 's what, and that 's as high 2 As metaphysic wit can fly. Line 149. 1 Compare Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors. Page 27. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, Of somebody to hew and hack. Line 359. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Line 463. And force them, though it was in spite Of nature, and their stars, to write. Line 647. Quoth Hudibras, 'I smell a rat; 2 Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.' Or shear swine, all cry and no wool. Line 821. Line 852. With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Canto ii. Line 831. Like feather bed betwixt a wall, And heavy brunt of cannon ball. 1 Compare Fuller, Andronicus. Page 212. 2 See Appendix, p. 648. Line 872. 8 And so his Highness schal have thereof, but as had the man that scheryd his Hogge, moche Crye and no Wull.-Fortescue, (1395-1485), Treatise on Absolute and Limited Monarchy, Ch. x. |