 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 Quarterly Review - Page 346edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...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... | |
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 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 448 pages
...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... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pages
...have found unhappy frustration j and to hold long subsistence, scems 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 530 pages
...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 - England - 1859 - 282 pages
...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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - English language - 1859 - 264 pages
...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...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia. There... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1030 pages
...unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a srape In oblivion. But man Is a n<»Me animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and death with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery In the infamy of his nature." — ffydrwtaphia.... | |
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