...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...be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was1: He that liketh it, let him receive it ; and he that does not, let him produce a better. Fare-wel."...

...could have adorned all things more than here I have seemed to do, but I dare not. I may not play in the relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." The accurate delineation which in that book he gives of " the thing as it was," in that case the growth...

...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." ' (BUNYAN, by William Hale White, 1905, pp. 10-11.) GOLDSMITH'S GRAVE ' AT Temple Bar we [ie Carlyle...

...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." In his earlier life there was a period of loose speech rather than of loose living : of lying, cursing,...

...artizans, countrymen, and merchants before that of poets or scholars.' The Holy War. The Pitgrim's Progress but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as...: and he that doth not, let him produce a better.' In his boyhood, as the apprentice of his father, the brazier, he had little leisure or taste for general...

...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 relating of them , a constant resolution to reject all amplification, digressions, and swellings of style ; to return...

...sunk into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of Hell gat hold upon me ; wherefore I may not play in my relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay...that doth not, let him produce a better. Farewell." And then he adds : " My little children, the milk and the honey is beyond this wilderness ; God be...

...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...plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." " We," says Paul,3 " have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor...

...the contrary, in this part of his epistle, three very striking words to bring out his endeavour " to be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was." " Not walking in trickery nor vamping the word of God," he says here ; 3 and, a chapter or so earlier,4...

...bottomless pit, and the pangs of hell caught hold of him; whereupon he may not in telling the story but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was. He that likes it may receive it, he that does not, let him produce a better. This book, which in parts is weird...