We've a long way to go yet, for the Valley of Humiliation comes only half-way in the _Pilgrim's Progress_.

The next stage was Vanity Fair.

I might be of some use there, don't you think ?' I remember the way she laughed and flung back her head like a gallant boy.
'The mistake we've all been making,' she said, 'is that our methods are too terre-a-terre.

We've a poet to deal with, a great poet, and we must fling our imaginations forward to catch up with him.

His strength is his unexpectedness, you know, and we won't beat him by plodding only.