| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistMicc seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal mitre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the in<amy... | |
| Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - 328 páginas
...for its especial purpose, tricks it out in the frippery of life. " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre ; nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 páginas
...for its especial purpose, tricks it out in the frippery of life. " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre ; nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| 1884 - 874 páginas
...extracts, might seem stilted, and even meretricious in its splendid glare of diction, as thus :—" But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." But the reader must not suppose that such passages fairly represent what he is to expect from these... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 páginas
...and 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... | |
| Richard Penn Smith - 1856 - 338 páginas
...his favorite child. Azib died, and, of course, was followed to the grave by an extended retinue. " Man is a noble animal; splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." After the funeral came a feast which was more speedly buried than poor Azib, for there is nothing like... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 páginas
...directly promised i:0 duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence...But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompons in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 páginas
...and 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... | |
| Université de Strasbourg. Faculté des lettres - 1925 - 352 páginas
...duration ; wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest cxpectants have found unhappy frustation, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
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