| Charles Lamb - 1850 - 444 páginas
...deceased to be furnished as follows : — A strong elm coffin, covered with superfine black, and furnished with two rows, all round, close drove, best japanned...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tadium vita upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 490 páginas
...to attend the funeral, a man to attend the same with band and gloves ; also, the burial fees paidjjf not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a t&dium vita upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, vtv (ta'a.vV Xo\>«. •as. •*&/',... | |
| 1859 - 748 páginas
...earthly 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 in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 páginas
...a handsome velvet palL three gentlemen's cloaks, three crape hatbands, three hoods and scarfs, aud g importunity Of husmees, in the green fields and the town, tcedium vitce upon one to read it, Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended.... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 páginas
...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 in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 224 páginas
...register of God, not in the record of man. There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality ! But man is a noble animal — splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths, with equal lustre; nor omitting the ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 586 páginas
...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 in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 páginas
...finery. Pride takes death, and, 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 pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 páginas
...velvet pall, three gentlemen's cloaks, three crape hat-bands, three hoods and scarfs, and six pairs of gloves ; two porters equipped to attend the funeral,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tadium vitas upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
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