 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
 | William Mountford - 1882 - 542 Seiten
...Tracing with burning lines of flame, On trembling hearts, his holy name. — ANON. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a feble. — THOMAS BROWNE. ATJBIN. MY birthday I make a thanksgiving of to God, that it was when it... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 Seiten
...uncharitable votes of hell, that desire our misery in the world to come. OP LIFE. Now for my life, it is ration of fools ; the idols of parasites ; and slaves of their own vaunts. AN ESSAY ON 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 - 1839 - 204 Seiten
...only God ; all others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, •which to relate were...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 lire, but to die in. The... | |
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 Seiten
...being ever and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus." "OF MYSELF. " 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 in but to die in. The... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1893 - 172 Seiten
...itself one glorious unfathomable miracle. ' Now for my life,' again to quote Sir Thomas Browne, ' it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...Poetry, and would sound to common ears like a Fable.' A certain editor, commenting on this passage, remarks : 'Yet its actual incidents justify no such description... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1893 - 144 Seiten
...life,' again to quote Sir Thomas Browne, ' it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not 12 a History, but a piece of Poetry, and would sound to common ears like a Fable.' A certain editor, commenting on this passage, remarks : 'Yet its actual incidents justify no such description... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 Seiten
...light invisible, and that is a spirit. From the Same } THE SOUL ILLIMITABLE 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 a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 Seiten
...light invisible, and that is a spirit. (From the Same.) THE SOUL ILLIMITABLE 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 a hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 584 Seiten
...caused speculation as to the meaning to be attached to his own account of it : ' 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.' Perhaps he means that every life is a string of mysteries. Johnson, who was unlikely to appreciate... | |
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