 Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The...  The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Seite 221871Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 Seiten
...others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. SECT. xi. — Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not...history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common years like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 Seiten
...imagine him deliberately making the world acquainted with. He tells us therein that his life had been a miracle of thirty years, " which, to relate, were...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable ;" that he was unmarried, and had never yet cast a true affection on a woman ; that he had been a great... | |
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 | William Mountford - 1858 - 536 Seiten
...Tracing with burning lines of flame, On trembling hearts, hia holy name. — ANON. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history, hut a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. — THOMAS BEOWNE. Mr birthday... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 Seiten
...interesting author we have only space for the following brief extracts : — OF MYSELF. For my life it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history, bnt a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world I count it not an... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 752 Seiten
...says Sir Thomas Browne, " it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a hisBrowne tory, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. " For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 750 Seiten
...species, that " The proper Btudy of mankind Is man." 1 " Now for my life," says Sir Thomas Browne, " it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history' but a piece of P°etrv' and woukl souml to common ears like a fable. " For the world, I count it not an inn, but an... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 476 Seiten
...that " The proper study of mankind is man. "/3 " Now for my life," says Sir Thomas Browne, " it is 'i miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. " For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live but to die in. The... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 Seiten
...remark he makes in relation to what Sir Thomas Brown asserts of the course of his own life, that it was " a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable." Now it is not known that any thing extraordinary ever befell him. " The wonders," says Johnson, "probably... | |
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