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Excerpt from Illustrations of the Pilgrim's Progress: Accompanied With Extracts From the Work and Descriptions of the Plates
While the text of this most ingenious and instructive Vision has afforded ample scope for the commentaries of theologians, its pages are not less rich in materials for pictorial embellishment. The characters, scenes, and incidents, recorded in them, are given with such graphic effect in the narrative, and are in themselves so picturesque, that we need not wonder at their having afforded study for the Artist as well as for the Divine. No efforts, perhaps, of. The mimic powers of a sister art, can hope to rival, in vivid force of delineation, the creative powers of the Author, or give to the eye the visible image of that which the imagination of every reader has previously pictured for itself: still, every such attempt may hope to be received with indulgence by all who truly love the pilgrim's progress, and cordially cherish the memory of bunyan.
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