| William P Dunn - 1950 - 193 sayfa
...grave. On earth there is no abiding place and no lasting memory — "But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal luster, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." 40 IV Browne's temperament... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1837 - 622 sayfa
...PICTON, Architect. " 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 of his nature." — SIR THOMAS BROWN. THE public attention has been aroused to some extent,... | |
| Susan Hill - 1992 - 198 sayfa
...misery makes Alcmena's nights, and time hath no wings to it.' 'But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities...ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of his nature. Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible fire within us.' "Tis all one to lie in St Innocent's... | |
| Cedric Clive Brown - 1993 - 318 sayfa
...either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration.... But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature, (p. 169) The irony... | |
| Achsah Guibbory - 2006 - 304 sayfa
...of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration . . . But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature, (p. 169) The irony... | |
| Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 sayfa
...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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. (Religio Medici, 1643) » (Jeremy Taylor, 1613-67) ° (Holy Living, 1650) ffi... | |
| D. Morrah - 2005 - 252 sayfa
...for the dead. Nobody laughed at Sir Thomas Browne when he wrote : 'Man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities...lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.' Yet Browne's stately prose and Tennyson's quiet verse express precisely the... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 sayfa
...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 equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame,... | |
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