| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sayfa
...expectants have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence 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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 sayfa
...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... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 sayfa
...that there is something vastly more dignified than fashion in the funeral rites of the Otaheitans — and feel that there is something vastly more important...commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, jsplendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 sayfa
...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... | |
| 1821 - 772 sayfa
...were paid. We are surrounded with the magnificence of death, and the trophies of departed glory. " Man is a noble animal ; splendid in ashes, and pompous in the dust, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the... | |
| 1821 - 770 sayfa
...vows were paid. We are surrounded with the magnificence of death, and the trophies of departed glory. "Man is a noble animal; splendid in ashes, and pompous in the dust, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 sayfa
...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." AVhoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and... | |
| 1826 - 548 sayfa
...expectants 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 Avith equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature ! Life is a pure... | |
| 1826 - 488 sayfa
...; also the burial fees to be 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... | |
| 1820 - 398 sayfa
...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 in the grace, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
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