 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.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3571874Full view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...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 sometimes for my recreation.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...egotistical is merely to say that he was writing about himself: to use his own words, " The world that I regard is myself: it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast my eye on." But this egotism, to conclude with the remarks of one of his most brilliant admirers, "is always the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...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 sometimes for my recreation.... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...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 eye on : for the other, I use it, but like my " globe, and turn it round for my recreation. Men that " look upon my outside, perusing only my condition and for" tunes, do err... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...uncheerful one, — during the state of probation in which we exist here below. He then continues : — " the world 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."... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 pages
...We carry," count it not an inn but a 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 can cast my eye on — for the other I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1844 - 320 pages
...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 sometimes for my recreation.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1844 - 320 pages
...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 sometimes for my recreation.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1844 - 238 pages
...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 f cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.... | |
 | 1871 - 808 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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