 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 ページ
...nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of j bravery in the infamy of his nature. ] you know, Lucrezia, as God lives, I sufficeth for life; great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious... | |
 | Harvey W Scott - 1917 - 430 ページ
...sun, and study "conceits to perpetuate their names in heaven?" 1 "But life," adds the same writer, "is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." Among men, fame is the only immortality. "The earth can have but earth, which is his due," says Shakespeare... | |
 | Herbert Bates - 1918 - 640 ページ
...deeds, exceeds an infamous history. . . . Who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate? Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. Sir Walter Raleigh has already been mentioned. The interest in Raleigh lies in his personality. Explorer,... | |
 | James Ramsay MacDonald - 1920 - 218 ページ
...£Munn. The theme of this novel is based on a three-hundred year old reflection of Sir Thomas Browne's " Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us." The growth of this flame —from its initial " Kindling " until its ultimate " Conflagration " —typifies... | |
 | Edith Sitwell - 1920 - 196 ページ
...£Munn. The theme of this novel is based on a three-hundred year old reflection of Sir Thomas Browne's " Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us." The growth of this flame — from its initial " Kindling " until its ultimate " Conflagration " - —... | |
 | Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman - 1920 - 248 ページ
...Bertram The theme of this novel is based on a three-hundred year old reflection of Sir Thomas Browne's " Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us." The growth of this flame — from its initial " Kindling " until its ultimate " Conflagration " —... | |
 | Catherine Gasquoine Hartley - 1920 - 172 ページ
...The theme of this novel is based on a three hundred year old reflection of Sir Thomas Browne's : " Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us." The growth of this flame — from its initial "kindling" until its ultimate "conflagration" — typifies... | |
 | Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) - 1920 - 184 ページ
...Mtunn. The theme of this novel is based on a three-hundred year old reflection of Sir Thomas Browne's " Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us." The growth of this flame — from its initial " Kindling " until its ultimate " Conflagration " —... | |
 | Harold Monro - 1920 - 250 ページ
...£Munn. The theme of this novel is based on a three-hundred year old reflection of Sir Thomas Browne's " Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us." The growth of this flame —from its initial " Kindling " until its ultimate " Conflagration " —typifies... | |
 | Eden Paul, Cedar Paul - 1921 - 198 ページ
...£Munn. The theme of this novel is based on a three-hundred year old reflection of Sir Thomas Browne's " Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us." The growth of this flame — from its initial " Kindling " until its ultimate " Conflagration " —... | |
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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... 
