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" Wouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy? Wouldst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly? Wouldst thou read riddles, and their explanation, Or else be drowned in thy contemplation? Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see A man i' th' clouds... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 493
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The pilgrim's progress

John Bunyan - 1795 - 638 pages
...unpoetical rhymes, concludes with the*e lines, which may serve as a favourable specimen of the whole. — ' Would'st thou divert thyself from melancholy? Would'st...thou love picking meat ? Or would'st thou see A man i'th' clouds, and hear him speak to thee? Would'st thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep? Or would'st...
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The pilgrim's progress, from this world, to that which is to come, Issue 157

John Bunyan - 1806 - 454 pages
...listless men affect : It seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains. Wouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy ? Wouldst...thou love picking meat ? or wouldst thou see A man i' th' clouds, and hear him speak to thee ? Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep ? Or wouldst...
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The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered ...

John Bunyan - 1808 - 440 pages
...Wou'dst thou divert thyself from melancholy* Wou'dst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly * Wou'dst thou read riddles and their explanation ? Or else be drowned in thy contemplation £ Dost thou love pie-king meat? Or wou'dst thou see A man i' th' clouds, and hear him speak la thee ? Wou'dsl thou be...
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The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come, Delivered ...

John Bunyan - 1811 - 462 pages
...listless men affect : It seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains. Wouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy ? Wouldst...thou love picking meat ? Or wouldst thou see A man i' th' clouds, and hear him speak to thee ? Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep ? Or, wouldst...
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The pilgrim's progress

John Bunyan - 1820 - 430 pages
...listless men affect : It seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains. Wouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy ? Wouldst...else be drowned in thy contemplation? Dost thou love pick,ng meat? Or wouldst thou see A man i' th' clouds, and hear him speak to thee ? Wouldst thou be...
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The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come; Delivered ...

John Bunyan, Robert Hawker - 1822 - 620 pages
...thou divert thyself from melancholy i Wonld'st thon be pleasant, yet be far from folly ? Would'st thon read riddles and their explanation ? . Or else be...contemplation ? Do.st thou love picking meat ? Or would'sl thou see A man i' th' clouds, and hear him speak to thee ? Would'st Ihon be in a dream, and...
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The Works of the Late Rev. T. Scott, Rector of Aston Sanford, Bucks, Volume 3

Thom Scott - 1823 - 578 pages
...concludes with these lines, which may serve as a favourable specimen of the whole : ' Would'st them divert thyself from melancholy ? Would'st thou be...thou love picking meat? Or would'st thou see A man i' th' clouds, and hear him speak to thee ? Would'st thou be in. a dream, and yet not sleep ? Or would'st...
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The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered ...

John Bunyan - 1827 - 388 pages
...unpoetical rhymes, concludes with these lines, which may serve as a favourable specimen of the whole : — ' Would'st thou divert thyself from melancholy ? Would'st thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly ? Woud'st thou read riddles and their explanation ? Or else be drowned in thy contemplation ? Dost...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 43

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1830 - 622 pages
...Valiant- for-the-trutli, Dare-notlie, and the like, the reader must remember that it was the custom of that puritanical age to impose texts and religious...? Wouldst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly 1 Wouldst thou read riddles and their explanation ? Or else be drowned in thy contemplation ? Dost...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 43

1830 - 606 pages
...rolls of Praise-GodBarebones' parliament. * In these observations we have never touched upon Bunyan 's poetry — an omission for which the good man, had...in thy contemplation ? Dost thou love picking meat 1 Or wouldst thou see A man i' the clouds, and hear him speak to thee ? Wouldst thou be in a dream,...
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