 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
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - 384 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 Seiten
...only GOD: all others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. XI. 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 dye in. The... | |
 | Richard Ward - 1911 - 344 Seiten
...recalls a similar statement of Dr More's contemporary, Sir Thomas Browne, " 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." NOTE III. (p. 61).— His tutor was Robert Gell. Henry More entered Christ's College in 1631, about... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 Seiten
...dog nor a man to be trifled with. J. BROWN. — Horae Subsecivae. HAPPY DEEAMS 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 - 1912 - 420 Seiten
...for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, 1 1 ^^ which to relate, were not a History, but a JL ^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... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 Seiten
...has some kinship with the Elizabethans. He says in the Religio Medici: — " 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. . . . Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude;... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 Seiten
...has some kinship with the Elizabethans. He says in the Religio Medici : — " 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. . . . Men that look upon ray outside, perusing- only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 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... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1913 - 326 Seiten
...et divers ? And so, like Erasmus and many another, as I have said, he deemed his life a miracle, ' which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry and would sound to common ears a fable,' and the fact that the sentiment is borrowed need not impair its sincerity. Nor, to indulge... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - 1914 - 400 Seiten
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