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 221871Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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