 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1859 - 264 páginas
...some great man with his service, and then he blusheth at his own bravery. Id., Ib. b. ii. c. 1 8. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 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, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 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 nativii ties and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 páginas
...Pagan poet ; but a Christian bishop, in the gorgeous Elizabethan periods of a still quainter moralist, "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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 páginas
...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 Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...any thing in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus." Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. **M*M>, PRIDE. I thank God amongst those millions... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...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 in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in... | |
 | 1856 - 502 páginas
...taking the gravestone for his faith to lean on, exclaims, with an intonation truly Miltonic, " Bat man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...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 in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 páginas
...deceased to be furnished as follows :—A strong elm coflin, covered with superfine black, and furnished with two rows, all round, close drove, best japanned...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tcedium vitoe upon one to read it Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
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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. 
