 | sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 頁
...fuch is only God : All others do tranfcend an unity, and fo by confequence are many. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a hiftory, but a piece of poetry, and would found to common ears like a fable ; for the world, I count... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 頁
...note 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...it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to Hve, but to die in. The world ' / that I regard is myself; it is the microcosme 6f mine own frame,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 頁
...note 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 頁
...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 頁
...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...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 Digby took... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 頁
...no passage more egotistical or less selfish than the following : " For the world, I count it not as an inn, but an hospital : " and a place not to live, but die in. The world that I re" gard is myself. It is the microcosm of mine own frame " that I cast my... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 頁
...noble 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...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 Kenelm Digby took... | |
 | 1871 - 808 頁
...general features. Sir Thomas assures us that his life, up to the period of the Religio Medici, was a " miracle of thirty years, which to relate were...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable." Johnson, with his usual sense, observes that it is rather difficult to detect the miraculous element... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 412 頁
...is only God: all others do tranfcend an unity, and fo by confequence are many. xi. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a hiftory, but a piece of poetry, and would found to common ears like a fable : for the world, I count... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 頁
...pride the spoils and trophies of his victory over Adam. For my life it is a miracle of thirty yean, a hospital, and a place not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm... | |
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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. 
