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" 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 Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are ... - Page 190
by Horace Smith - 1836 - 279 pages
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Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...hospital, and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself, it is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other,...globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial...
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On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The Valley of the Rye ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...hospital, and a place not to live, but to die in. 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 ray globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. The earth is a point, not only in respect...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on: for the other, 1 1 use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my i recreation. Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 64

1837 - 568 pages
...world that I regard is myself, it is the micro' cosm of my own frame, that I can cast mine eye on-^-for the ' other I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes ' for my recreation. . . . The earth is a point not only in respect ' of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and...
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Italy: a poem. With historical and classical notes

John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...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...
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Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...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,...globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation." Here the perspicuity of the sentence is no doubt disturbed, in some degree, by quaintness and affectation...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton, Volume 2

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...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 recreation. . . . The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial...
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The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, Volume 1

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...... but as an hospital and place to die in. The world that I regard is myself. It is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, 1 use it, but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. Men that look on my outside,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...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,...globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation." That whimsical inversion of the natural order is the key to the Religio Medici. We, for the nonce,...
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Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1844 - 240 pages
...Med. p. 114. The world that I regard is myself, it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast my eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. Rel. Med. p. 120. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements...
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