...Symbol: the vehicle of a sustained comparison in a dramatic situation; "just as Christian came up (to) the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back." John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) lik'ning spiritual to corporal forms Milton, Paradise Lost,...

...upon that place stood a cross, and a little below, in the bottom, a sepulchre. Sol saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his...sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more, Then he stood still awhile to look and wonder; for it was very surprising to him, that the sight of the...

...upon that place stood a cross, and a little below, in the bottom, a sepulchre. So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his...back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do, I saw it no more, Then he stood still awhile to look and wonder; for it was very surprising to him,...

...eloquent passages is that passage where he describes Christian at the cross: So I saw in my Dream, that just as Christian came up with the Cross, his...burden loosed from off his Shoulders, and fell from 176 off his back; and began to tumble; and so continued to do, till it came to the mouth of the Sepulcher,...

...his burden fell from his shoulders and from off his back, and it began to tumble and continued until it came to the mouth of the Sepulchre, where it fell in. And I never saw it any more. Then Christian was glad and full of light. And he said with a merry heart, He...