...mis-led, But Age hath brought me right to Bed.2 SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682) 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 world...

...Man's life JT- • i. l_ • i. si A ia constant thirty years, which to relate, were not a miracle. \ 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...

...fails to see how a life so placid and seemingly uneventful as Browne's can have appeared to Sir Thomas "a miracle of thirty years, which, to relate, were...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable." A man's subjective existence, however, may be filled with an almost miraculous communion with the invisible...

...TOW for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, 11 ^L which to relate, were not a History, but a 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 dye in. The...

...for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, 11 ^LI which to relate, were not a History, but a .L ^1 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 dye in. The...

...patient, but I forget my profession and call unto God for his soul." Of his own life he speaks as " a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history but a piece of poetry." So can a brilliant intellect illuminate the seemingly prosaic existence of a local doctor ! He took...

...said in rhyme. John Keats. Death and Sleep -o *^>- "Cy (From Religio Medici) "VT OW 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. 259...

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...law of character. "Now for my life," he exclaims in the most famous passage of his Religio, "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 world...

...law of character. "Now for my life," he exclaims in the most famous passage of his Religio, " 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...