 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 - 22 페이지1871전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight - 1900 - 328 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
..."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 페이지
...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... | |
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