 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...  AN ENGLISH PROSE MISCELLANY - Page 98by JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907Full view - About this book
 | William Boulting - Travel - 1996 - 274 pages
...fountain of all law and of all piety : hence Moslem theology and law are inextricably intertwined. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us," is one of the quaint metaphors of Sir Thomas Browne. The old Norwich physician is writing of the body... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Perkins - Drama - 1994 - 208 pages
...women with a clear conscience.4 "Invisible Sun" takes its title from a beautiful line in Urn Burial: "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us." Many generations of readers have been disconcerted by the discrepancy between Browne the religious... | |
 | Chaim Stern - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 388 pages
...heaven, And every common bush afire with God! But only he who sees, takes offhis shoes. Sir Thomas Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. Browne Unknown Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven You... | |
 | Kathy Wagoner - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2002 - 390 pages
...sorrow. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon i 145 JOY лке- -be iA/йс? believe iiA — W. Gurney Benham 147 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. —Sir Thomas Browne 149 In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in V winter dJAICXA —William Blake... | |
 | 48 pages
...me; when His candle shined upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness. JOB 29:2-3 JLife is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. SIR THOMAS BROWN (L•ome to know the angels and observe them often with your spirit. Then, even when... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by...precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus, but the wisedom of funerall Laws found the folly of prodigall blazes, and reduced undoing fires, unto the rule... | |
 | David Carl - Books and reading - 2006 - 330 pages
...do all they do and then they can do what they never do do." Gertrude Stein Miniature Conflagrations: "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible...men vainly affected precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapulus, but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2008 - 207 pages
...Latin—perpetuation, duration, diuturnity, superannuated—and enjoyed the eloquence of his aphorisms—"Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us"—his rhetorical questions and exempla: To be namelesse in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.... | |
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