 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 - Side 14redigert av - 1871Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sider
...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 - 1807 - 556 sider
...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 - 1813 - 546 sider
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 370 sider
...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 - 1831 - 180 sider
...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 sider
...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 sider
...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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