 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 14edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
 | 1900 - 660 pages
...embrace them in the same degree." " Now for my life — it is a miracle of thirty years (1605-1635), which to relate were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common years like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital, and a place not to live,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 564 pages
...attraction which the lovers of letters from his day to this have not been slow to feel. " For ray 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... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus, Francis Morgan Nichols - 1901 - 648 pages
...them to be his, they may recall the well-known passage of Sir Thomas Browne : " 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" (Religio Medici, s. 11). Browne, whose book was printed in 1642, had probably read the Vita Erasmi.... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 pages
...mis-led, But Age hath brought me right to Bed.2 SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682) 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... | |
 | 1902 - 1236 pages
...lived and died conscious of his miraculous career. "Now for my life," said 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." Nor does this confession disturb our argument. Sir Thomas Browne battered no castles, he rescued no... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 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 a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1902 - 354 pages
...Man's life JT- • i. l_ • i. si A ia constant thirty years, which to relate, were not a miracle. \ 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... | |
 | 1903 - 1254 pages
...fails to see how a life so placid and seemingly uneventful as Browne's can have appeared to Sir Thomas "a miracle of thirty years, which, to relate, were...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable." A man's subjective existence, however, may be filled with an almost miraculous communion with the invisible... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1904 - 420 pages
...TOW for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, 11 ^L which to relate, were not a History, but a 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 dye in. The... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1904 - 432 pages
...for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, 11 ^LI which to relate, were not a History, but a .L ^1 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 dye in. The... | |
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