 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 sometimes for my recreation.  Willis's Current notes - Page 72by Willis's Current notes - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 586 pages
...from Sir Thomas Browne :f "For the world," he says, " I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live but to die in. The world that...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 sometimes for my recreation."... | |
 | Marie-Claire Rouyer - English literature - 1996 - 344 pages
...il n'ya pas de fragmentation, ni de morcellement, mais une correspondance des différents niveaux : 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 sometimes for my recreation... | |
 | Daniela Havenstein - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 262 pages
...passage from the Religio, among examples taken from other authors, as typical of the periode coupee: 'The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on: for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Literary Collections - 2003 - 180 pages
...sound to eommon ears like a table. For the world, I eoum it not an inn but an hospital, and a plaee not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is myself: it is the mieroeosm of mine own frame that I east mine eye on; tor the otlier, I use it but like mx globe, and... | |
 | Medicine - 1873 - 404 pages
...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 that...— 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 sometimes for my recreation.... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1912 - 992 pages
...ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn but an hospital, and a place not to live in 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 sometimes for my recreation.... | |
 | Karla Armbruster, Kathleen R. Wallace - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 388 pages
...nature as a religous text.4 Woolf does not quote this assertion, however, but rather his statement that "The world that I regard is myself, it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eyes on" (Essays 155). And she asks, "What ... is ever to stop the course of such a mind, unroofed... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 pages
...his usual felicity. "The world that I regard," he says in the spirit of the imprisoned Richard II., " 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 sometimes for my recreation."... | |
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