Crossword-Solution: BUNYAN 6 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Alas, for his own soul, if these were what he sought! Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician’s eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan’s awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim’s face.

Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics.

Whoever he was, the author of these wonderful little pictures may lay claim to be the best illustrator of Bunyan.

They put me in mind of the palaces in Bunyan, their windows all golden in the morning sun; and as we jogged ahead, I pondered on the delights within them.

Southey has critically observed that to his natural style Bunyan is in some degree beholden for his general popularity, his language being everywhere level to the most ignorant reader and to the meanest capacity; "there is a homely reality about it--a nursery tale is not more intelligible, in its manner of narration, to a child." Another cause of his popularity, says Southey, is that he taxes the imagination as little as the understanding.