 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 - עמוד 360נערך על ידי - 1819תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 דפים
...have fotmd 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. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 דפים
...unhappy frustration; arid to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a nobl* animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave,...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature: * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 דפים
...seems but a scape iri oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the gravej solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments; to live in their productions, to exist... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 דפים
...gloves ; also the bu. lial 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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 דפים
...unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noblt animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave;...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 דפים
...than eloquence, in the words of an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature ;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words Mill more sublime and exhilarating... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 דפים
...an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, jsplendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities...ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words still more sublime and exhilarating... | |
 | 1831 - 602 דפים
...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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." Dr. Gooch. — In the autumn of 1822, Gooch made a tour through North Wales;... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 דפים
...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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 דפים
...taking the grave stone for his faith to lean on, and for his hope's moveless resting place — " But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." How stupendous is the following... | |
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