 ... 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 ; but the wisdom of funeral laws...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 10geredigeerd door - 1830Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pagina’s
...Sardanapalus; but the widom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. " Five languages secured riot the epitaph of Gordianus ; the man of God lives longer without a tomb... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pagina’s
...Sardanapalus; but the widom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. " Five languages secured not the epitaph of Gordianus ; the man of God lives longer without a tomb... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...: but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing tires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. Five languages secured not the epitaph of Gordianus; The Man of God lives longer without a tomb than... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pagina’s
...; but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. * * * # While some have studied monuments, others have studiously declined them ; and some have been... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pagina’s
...Sardanapalus; but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five languagesf secured not the epitaph of Gordianus. The man of God lives longer without a tomb than... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 564 pagina’s
...inconsiderate haste which marks the decisions of the rash and uninformed.' — ,.••ill!, ..-/-.'I Cant, p. 262. doubt doubt with approbation. It is an evil...metropolis. In hospitals, prisons, and poor-houses, persona are continually dying leaving behind them no friends to claim the body, to feel comfort at... | |
 | 1830 - 562 pagina’s
...yielding a kind of knowledge procurable by no other means, and essentially necessary to the relief aud cure of diseases ? Such a supply is to be found only...so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, aud an urn.' Yet this small proportion amounts to a large number in the crowded population of an immense... | |
 | 1831 - 370 pagina’s
...Sardanapalus. But the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five languages t secured not the epitaph of Gordianus. The man of God lives longer without a tomb than... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pagina’s
...Sardanapalus. But the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule 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 - 526 pagina’s
...laws found the folly of prodigal 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 languages secured not the epitaph of Gordianus.f The man of God lives longer without a tomb than... | |
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