 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
 | Ernest Edwin Speight - 1900 - 328 Seiten
...weird garden Memory brings. JAMES RUSSELL Lo\vELL THE SOUL THAT IS WITHIN US 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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 564 Seiten
...attraction which the lovers of letters from his day to this have not been slow to feel. " 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 460 Seiten
..."Religio Medici" itself is its author's best biography. "Now for my life," he writes in it;—"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." As we... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1900 - 364 Seiten
...song of pure concent," when God's abyss of mercy encircled all his existence ? " As 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." " Surely," exclaimed Johnson in the spirit of eighteenth-century common sense " a man may visit France... | |
 | 1900 - 660 Seiten
...embrace them in the same degree." " Now for my life — it is a miracle of thirty years (1605-1635), which to relate were not a 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,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 564 Seiten
...attraction which the lovers of letters from his day to this have not been slow to feel. " For ray 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. For the world I count it not an... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus, Francis Morgan Nichols - 1901 - 648 Seiten
...them to be his, they may recall the well-known passage of Sir Thomas Browne : " 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" (Religio Medici, s. 11). Browne, whose book was printed in 1642, had probably read the Vita Erasmi.... | |
 | 1902 - 1236 Seiten
...lived and died conscious of his miraculous career. "Now for my life," said 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." Nor does this confession disturb our argument. Sir Thomas Browne battered no castles, he rescued no... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 Seiten
...is only God; all others do transcend a unity, and so by consequence are many. 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... | |
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