him to seize upon correctly. Christian, for example, a man,
and a bold one, is represented as enduring his fatigues,
trials, and combats, by his own stout courage, under the
blessing of heaven: but to express that species of inspired
heroism by which women are supported in the path of duty,
notwithstanding the natural feebleness and timidity of their
nature, Christiana and Mercy obtain from the interpreter their
guide, called Great-heart, by whose strength and valour their
lack of both is supplied, and the dangers and distresses of
the way repelled and overcome.

"The author hints, at the end of the second part, as if 'it
might be his lot to go this way again;' nor was his mind that
light species of soil which could be exhausted by two crops.
But he left to another and very inferior hand the task of
composing a third part, containing the adventures of one
Tender Conscience, far unworthy to be bound up, as it
sometimes is, with John Bunyan's matchless parable."

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'Tis necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And
though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of
critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being
a writer.

_Shaftesbury Criticism_

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