 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 - 1862 - 476 Seiten
...consequence are many. Man's life xi. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty a constant . miracle, years, which to relate, were not a history, but a...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 Thomas Browne - 1862 - 290 Seiten
...iii. M.->n'» life XI. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty aconitant * * miracle, years, winch 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 484 Seiten
...PvbKut Scipio. Cic. de Off., lib. iii. xi. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirtv <i»i.;i miracle. years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetiy, and would sound to common ears like a fable : for the world, I count it not an inn, but an... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 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... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1865 - 508 Seiten
...study of mankind is man." P sir Thomas " Now for my life," says Sir Thomas Browne, " it is quota"." a 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... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 Seiten
...infills those who are leaving the light of earth. Victor Hugo. "VTOW, for my life, it is a miracle of years, which to •*•* relate were not a history,...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. Thomas Browne. f\N parent knees a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1868 - 438 Seiten
...piece of egotism, in which all believers in our spiritual immortality may share: "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 care like a fable.* For the world I count it not an inn but a hospital, and a place not to live but... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1868 - 336 Seiten
...piece of egotism, in which all believers in our spiritual immortality may share: — "For my life it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history, but a piece of poetry, mid would sound to common ears like a fable.* For the world 1 count * This boaat, which Dr. Johnson... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 Seiten
...others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. Sect. 11. — Now for my life, it is a 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1874 - 132 Seiten
...others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. Sect. II. — Now for my life, it is a 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... | |
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