THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode: nay, I had undertook To make another; which, …
Category: Pilgrim’s Progress
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: FIRST STAGE
THE FIRST STAGE As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw …
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: SECOND STAGE
THE SECOND STAGE Then did Christian address himself to go back; and Evangelist, after he had kissed him, gave him one smile, and bid him God speed; So he went on with haste, neither spake he to any man by the way; nor if any …
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: THIRD STAGE
THE THIRD STAGE Now I saw in my dream, that the highway up which Christian was to go, was fenced on either side with a wall, and that wall was called Salvation. Isaiah 26:1. Up this way, therefore, did burdened Christian run, but not without …
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: FORTH STAGE
THE FOURTH STAGE Then he began to go forward; But Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence would accompany him down to the foot of the hill. So they went on together, reiterating their former discourses, till they came to go down the hill. Then said Christian, …
The Pilgrims’ Progress Book One: Stage Five
THE FIFTH STAGE Now, as Christian went on his way, he came to a little ascent, which was cast up on purpose that pilgrims might see before them: up there, therefore, Christian went; and looking forward, he saw Faithful before him upon his journey: Then …
The Pilgrims’ Progress Book One: Stage Six
THE SIXTH STAGE Evangelist Joins Christian and faithful Now when they were got almost quite out of this wilderness, Faithful chanced to cast his eye back, and espied one coming after them, and he knew him. Oh! said Faithful to his brother, who comes …
The Pilgrims’ Progress Book One: Stage Seven
THE SEVENTH STAGE Hopeful Joins Christian and Faithful Now I saw in my dream, that Christian went not forth alone; for there was one whose name was Hopeful, (being so made by the beholding of Christian and Faithful in their words and behavior, in their …
The Pilgrims’ Progress Book One: Stage Eight
THE EIGHTH STAGE The Delectable Mountains They went then till they came to the Delectable Mountains, which mountains belong to the Lord of that hill of which we have spoken before. So they went up to the mountains, to behold the gardens and orchards, the …
The Pilgrims’ Progress Book One: Stage Nine
THE NINTH STAGE The Country of Conceit And I slept, and dreamed again, and saw the same two pilgrims going down the mountains along the highway towards the city. Now, a little below these mountains, on the left hand, lieth the country of Conceit, from …