 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
 | Arthur Machen - 1923 - 176 페이지
...Thomas Browne in which he declares his life up to the period of the " Religio Medici " to have been " a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history, but a piece of poetry." Dr Johnson, summing up the known events of Browne's early life, finds therein nothing in the least... | |
 | 1922 - 276 페이지
...himself the words of a contemporary physician, Sir Thomas Browne : " Now for my life, it is a miracle which to relate were not a history but a piece of poetry." It is pleasant to recall a picture presented by an appreciative writer of sixty years ago, the author... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 페이지
...only God; all others do transcend an 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 an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1926 - 410 페이지
...meritorious. Moreover, he sees miracles everywhere, even in existence at its simplest. "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." His habitual themes are those of the preacher — the vanity of glory, the nearness of death. He renews... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 페이지
...could raise a belief, and expect apparent impossibilities. The Soul Illimitable Now for my life, it is e the heart of the coal-black tree, Crisped like a...vainly sought to dissemble her eyes Of the blackest For the World, I count it not an Inn, but an Hospital ; and a place not to live, but to dye in. The... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - 1926 - 416 페이지
...meritorious. Moreover, he sees miracles everywhere, even in existence at its simplest. "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." His habitual themes are those of the preacher — the vanity of glory, the nearness of death. He renews... | |
 | 1879 - 1166 페이지
...he threw over everything he touched, he invested the idea of his own life. " My life (1635) has been a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history, but a piece of poetry." There is nothing in the circumstances recorded to separate his career from the pro'saic life of other... | |
 | Harold C. Goddard - 2009 - 410 페이지
...way. How it does work, Sir Thomas Browne once made clear when he exclaimed: "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." If we may judge by his works, Shakespeare's life had a like integrity. His inner Ufe at any rate. It... | |
 | 1909 - 378 페이지
...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... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 588 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... | |
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