{"id":2337,"date":"2018-08-17T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/52-bunyans-holy-war\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:55:49","slug":"52-bunyans-holy-war","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/52-bunyans-holy-war\/","title":{"raw":"52. <i>Bunyan's holy War<\/i>.","rendered":"52. <i>Bunyan&#8217;s holy War<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/108\" target=\"new\">90<\/a><\/span> <p>A very beautiful manuscript was once put into my hands by a provincial bookseller, to whom it had been offered for publication, containing two tragedies upon the subject of John Bunyan's Holy War. It was the <i>composition<\/i> of a lady, who had fitted together scraps from Shakspeare, Milton, Young's Night Thoughts, and Erskine's Gospel Sonnets, into this form, with no other liberty than that of occasionally altering a name. The Lady Constance, I remember, was converted into the Lady Conscience, and whole speeches and scenes were thus introduced in a wholesale sort of cento. The Ghost in Hamlet also did for an Earl Conscience.<\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/108\" target=\"new\">90<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A very beautiful manuscript was once put into my hands by a provincial bookseller, to whom it had been offered for publication, containing two tragedies upon the subject of John Bunyan&#8217;s Holy War. It was the <i>composition<\/i> of a lady, who had fitted together scraps from Shakspeare, Milton, Young&#8217;s Night Thoughts, and Erskine&#8217;s Gospel Sonnets, into this form, with no other liberty than that of occasionally altering a name. The Lady Constance, I remember, was converted into the Lady Conscience, and whole speeches and scenes were thus introduced in a wholesale sort of cento. The Ghost in Hamlet also did for an Earl Conscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":52,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2337","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2337\/revisions\/2338"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2337\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}