 But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 346geredigeerd door - 1819Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1835 - 430 pagina’s
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pagina’s
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | 1836 - 694 pagina’s
...words, that " there is nothing strictly immortal but immortality." But, mortal, be not discouraged. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in...nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of hia nature." Indeed, the last chapter of the Urn burial, (from whichlhe above extracts are taken,)... | |
 | 1836 - 640 pagina’s
...glory ; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory.' ' But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. • "—pp. 336, 337. ART. VIII.—Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pagina’s
...glory ; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory." " But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." To this treatise on Urn-burial, the author added another upon " the Garden of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 404 pagina’s
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.1' " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pagina’s
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pagina’s
...success was derided by many of the miners of the adjacent coal-field." MONUMENTS TO THE DEAD. " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."— SIR TUOMAS BROWNE. THE practice of erecting monuments to the dead is of great antiquity. It is almost... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 pagina’s
...have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pagina’s
...have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." has published, it is fair to add, that they contain some translations from Plato... | |
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