delectable mountains造句

• At the Delectable Mountains, three Shepherds are at evening prayer.
• Now the path leads down a grassy slope representing the Delectable Mountains, to a stone summerhouse, the Howling House.
• The Boy replies " not far ", and points out that one can see the Delectable Mountains on a clear day.
• Next accompanied by Hopeful, Christian proceeds toward Doubting Castle, the Delectable Mountains, the land of Beulah, and on to the Celestial City.
• Local speculation is that the ridge was the model for the " Delectable Mountains " in John Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress ".
• Productions mounted included Ralph Vaughan Williams's " The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains ", and Charles Villiers Stanford's " The Travelling Companion ".
• For example, his earlier one-act opera " The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains " from 1921 was incorporated into Act 4, Scene 2 of the later opera.
• The Delectable Mountains form the next stage of Christian and Hopeful's journey, where the shepherds show them some of the wonders of the place also known as " Immanuel's Land ".
• Vaughan Williams had written incidental music for an amateur dramatisation in 1906, and had returned to the theme in 1921 with the one-act " The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains " ( finally incorporated, with amendments, into the 1951 opera ).
• Under his direction it combined with a local theatrical group, the Oxted and Limpsfield Players, to give performances of Vaughan Williams's opera " The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains " and of Tippett's own adaptation of an 18th-century ballad opera, " The Village Opera ".
• Because of the widespread longtime popularity of " The Pilgrim's Progress ", Christian's hazards  whether originally from Bunyan or borrowed by him from the Bible the " Slough of Despond ", the " Hill Difficulty ", " Valley of the Shadow of Death ", " Doubting Castle ", and the " Enchanted Ground ", his temptations ( the wares of " Vanity Fair " and the pleasantness of " By-Path Meadow " ), his foes ( " Apollyon " and " Giant Despair " ), and the helpful stopping places he visits ( the " House of the Interpreter ", the " House Beautiful ", the " Delectable Mountains ", and the " Land of Beulah " ) have become commonly used phrases proverbial in English.