 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus...  Sir Thomas Browne - Strana 197podľa Edmund Gosse - 1905 - Počet stránok 214Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Počet stránok 380
...his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficedi for life, great flames seemed too little after death,...precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus; but the widom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Počet stránok 374
...his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and to bum like Sardanapalus; but the widom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - Počet stránok 668
...his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small tire sutficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death,...the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing tires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch,... | |
 | 1826 - Počet stránok 548
...nature ! i < Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life ; great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and burned like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - Počet stránok 362
...his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life ; great flames seemed too little after death,...of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not'to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five languages t secured not the epitaph of Gordianus.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - Počet stránok 526
...his nature.3 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death,...blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober olbsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - Počet stránok 532
...quotes this striking passage in the open- instead of infamy. ing of his Colloquies,— but in a note he and to burn like Sardanapalus; but the wisdom of funeral...wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, piteh, a mourner, and an urn.* Five languages secured not the epitaph of Gordianus.f The man of God... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - Počet stránok 580
...his nature *. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected furious fires, and to burn like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - Počet stránok 238
...nature. "Life is a pure fHme, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A smalt fire sufficeth for lifc, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious py ;-es, and to burn like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1658 - Počet stránok 602
...nature.3 |_life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within /^ us. J A. small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too™* little after...burn like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral "Llaws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing J fires unto the rule of sober obsequies,... | |
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