| Robert Southey - 1829 - 456 páginas
...dress had been, in the same journal, scarce eighteen months before. " Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, " 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... | |
| 1830 - 550 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... | |
| William Jerdan - 1830 - 432 páginas
...dress, had been in the same journal scarce eighteen months before. "Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, ' 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... | |
| 1831 - 370 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... | |
| William Godwin - 1831 - 504 páginas
...inaccessible to the weaknesses of other men * . It is the observation of sir Thomas Browne : " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." One of the most remarkable examples of this is to be found in the pyramids of Egypt. They are generally... | |
| William Godwin - 1831 - 614 páginas
...remained inaccessible to the weaknesses of other men a. It is the observation of sir Thomas Browne : " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." One of the most remarkable examples of this is to be found in the pyramids of Egypt. They are generally... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 páginas
...equipped to attend the funeral, a man to attend the same with band and gloves; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir...provision for it. It really almost induces a tedium vltte upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing tp die, in death to be so attended. The two... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 376 páginas
...equipped to attend the funeral, a man to attend the same with band and gloves; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.'" " Man," says...provision for it. It really almost induces a tedium vita upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The two rows... | |
| 1835 - 430 páginas
...equipped to attend the funeral, a man to attend the same with band and gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a (1edium vita upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 páginas
...of gloves ; two porters equipped to attend the same with band and gloves ; and also the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." "Man," says Sir...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a ttedium vitee upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended.... | |
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