 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
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 페이지
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1913 - 326 페이지
...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... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - 1916 - 312 페이지
...Browne. He speaks rhetorically of himself, but his words are true of all men: 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... | |
 | Mervin James Curl - 1919 - 332 페이지
...nature as to be more interesting even than lies. As Sir Thomas Browne said of his not remarkable life, "which to relate were not a history but a piece of poetry and would sound to common ears a fable." Man. Not only do we believe that "man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 페이지
...intellectually sounds in the ears of God. Religio Medici, II, 9. THE MIRACLE 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... | |
 | James Langdon Hill - 1920 - 296 페이지
...be withstood than you could resist the earth in its revolution. It is the miracle of a generation, which to relate, were not a history but a piece of poetry, and would sound to many ears like a fable. The growth in population and in wealth, during a long constructive period,... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 270 페이지
...apprehension of the divine in man and nature as his daily food, should have written: " 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." We need not speculate with Dr. Johnson what there could have been in the young physician's uneventful... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 페이지
...is the document from which we must complete our mental portrait of the man. 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... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 페이지
...death, and the following extract indicates Sir Thomas Browne's line of thought: 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... | |
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