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" 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 - Page 22
1871
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...which Cupid strikes, far sweater than the sound of an instrument. f)n Himself, 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 Hve, but to die in. The...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. On Himself, \ s Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...poetry, and would s,ound 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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. On Himself, Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history, hut a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an...
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...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 die in. The...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...is only God. All others do transcend a 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...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. SECT. 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 die in. The...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 5

Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...imagine him deliberately making the world acquainted with. He tells us therein that his life had been a miracle of thirty years, " which, to relate, were...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable ;" that he was unmarried, and had never yet cast a true affection on a woman ; that he had been a great...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 64

1837 - 568 pages
...of egotism, in which all believers in our spiritual immortality may share : — ' 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 * This boast, which Dr Johnson could not explain, and even the super-refining Sir Kenelm...
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Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...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...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton, Volume 2

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...piece of egotism, in which all believers in our spiritual immortality may share: — "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 * This boast, which Dr. Johnson could not explain, and even the super-refining Sir...
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