 For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round...  No Hero: An Autobiography : [a Novel] - Sida 322efter Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 355 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1908 - 594 sidor
...you, eveu though he tells the truth. So I rebel that truth it be when Coitnn says : "Count the world not an inn but an hospital, and a place not to live in, but to die in." Here amidst the great silence the doctor pauses,and in deep melodious tones says:... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 sidor
...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 world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on: for... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 310 sidor
...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 dye in. The world that [I regard is my self; it is the Microcosm of my own I frame that I cast mine... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 sidor
...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 world that I regard is my self; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I can cast mine eye on;... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 sidor
...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 dye in. The world that I regard is my self ; it is the Microcosm of my own frame that I cast my eye... | |
 | Joseph Collins - 1923 - 330 sidor
...consideration. Readily might he subscribe to Sir Thomas Browne's statement, "For the world, I count it not as an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in." In the first entries of the diary he speaks of being ill, and although the disease of which he died... | |
 | Mary Coate - 1924 - 242 sidor
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 | John Henry Grafton Grattan - 1925 - 354 sidor
...Sentences. What difficulties with the verb occur in some of them if the latter course is taken ? A. i. " For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital." SIR T. BROWNE, Religio Medici. 2. " The blacksmith works late and early." 3. My eye is black and blue... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 sidor
...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 world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for... | |
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