 | Anne Laurence, W.R. Owens, Stuart Sim - 1990 - 220 halaman
...as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me: wherefore I may not play in my relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was'.14 From this borderline, on which an experience with strong sensory features but without direct... | |
 | Mervin Block - 1997 - 332 halaman
...thought." HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL "An honest tale speeds best being plainly told." WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "Be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." JOHN BUNYAN "Get your facts right first; that is the foundation of all style." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1998 - 342 halaman
...into a bottomless pit* when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me:* wherefore I may not play in my relating of them* but be plain and simple, and lay...He that liketh it, let him receive it; and he that does not, let him produce a better. Farewel. My dear Children, The Milk and Honey is heyond this Wilderness:... | |
 | Ian Robinson - 1998 - 234 halaman
...are usually used much as we use them. 24 Ibid., para. 270. The compositor was running short of ws. down the thing as it was: He that liketh it, let him receive it; and he that does not, let him produce a better. Farewel.25 What seems to the author to follow naturally from the... | |
 | Todd W. Taylor, Irene Ward - 1998 - 212 halaman
...preacher John Bunyan declared in 1666 that all who would do God's work must abandon "play" in language and "be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was" (15). This attitude, without the religious emphasis, informs advice on speaking and writing up to the... | |
 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - 2002 - 1064 halaman
...language: Bunyan renounces the ornate style when narrating God's interventions ('I may not play in my relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was'), while the members of the Royal Society (according to the ex-Cromwellian Thomas Sprat) reject metaphor... | |
 | David Norton - 2000 - 526 halaman
...as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me: wherefore I may not play in my relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was. (pp. 5-6) In general terms he is decribing the prevailing perception of biblical style. Indeed, he... | |
 | Roger North - 2000 - 388 halaman
...adorned all things more then here I have seemed to do, but I dare not.' Bunyan therefore sought to be 'plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was.' Similarly, style was an issue for North. In the foreword to a manuscript collection of essays, for... | |
 | Richard L. Greaves - 2002 - 722 halaman
...as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me: wherefore I may not play in my relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." If any disapproved, Bunyan challenged them to compose better spiritual autobiographies. In the meantime,... | |
 | Janet Bertsch - 2004 - 180 halaman
...as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me: wherefore I may not play in my relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was. . . . ( GA, 3-4) Bunyan does not view his use of metaphor primarily as an aesthetic achievement, as... | |
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... I could also have stepped into a style much higher than this in which I have here discoursed, and could have adorned all things more than here I have seemed to do ; but I dare not. God did not play in tempting of me ; neither did I play, when I sunk... 
