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 Monthly Review - Página 1151835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 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... | |
| Mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1859 - 282 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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