| James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 páginas
...AND ON THE EXPEDIENCY OF RENDERING SUBSERVIENT TO PIOUS AND CHRISTIAN USES BY JH MARKLAND, FRS & SA Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solem nizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, SIR T. BROWNE, OXFORD, JOHN HENRY PARKER: OF... | |
| 1866 - 956 páginas
...earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory, — yet man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery even in the infamy of his nature." Two mighty pens — the one in the hand of Edmund Burke, the other... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...expectants have f -unj unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. a wisdom without them, and above tb :rare, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 páginas
...grandest efforts of mind or hand after ' a diuturnity of memory.' To baffle the powers of Death has been * 'Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grnve, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
| William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 páginas
...deeply. The subtlety of this distinction is worthy of a Jesuit. V. A DAY AMONG THE TOMBS OF ROME. " MAN is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave," and most splendid and pompous of all mankind were the ancient Romans. Their Emperors raised gigantic... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...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...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 sufficeth for life,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...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 ргате, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lu~tre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
| 1848 - 574 páginas
...have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape^in oblivion. Bnt'man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...nativities and deaths with [equal lustre, nor omitting' ceremonies^of bravery in the infamy of his nature. — Sir T. Browne. FLATTERY SOMETIMES SERVICEABLE.... | |
| 1874 - 714 páginas
...hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in »shes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." JA PlCTON. Sandyknowe, Wavertree. PHILIPPE CORSAT.— On the 26th of September, Switzerland's b;irber-poet... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1849 - 238 páginas
...expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scaps in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativitioj and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.... | |
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