| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 páginas
...gloves ; and 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... | |
| 1835 - 432 páginas
...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... | |
| 1835 - 642 páginas
...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 Lamb - 1835 - 390 páginas
...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... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 276 páginas
...moment. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with many a great part even of our living beings. Who knows whether the best of...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." To this treatise on Urn-burial, the author added another upon " the Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunxial... | |
| 1836 - 640 páginas
...moment. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with many a great part even of our living beings. Who knows whether the best of...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. • "—pp. 336, 337. ART. VIII.—Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the site of Ancient... | |
| 1836 - 694 páginas
...words, that " there is nothing strictly immortal but immortality." But, mortal, be not discouraged. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of hia nature." Indeed, the last chapter of the Urn burial, (from whichlhe above extracts are... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 404 páginas
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.1' " 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... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 494 páginas
...remembered in the known account of time ? The sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earihly glory ; and the quality of either state, after death,...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." To this treatise on Urn-burial, the author added another upon " the Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunxial... | |
| 1837 - 568 páginas
...have found un . ' happy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a ' scape ia oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, ' and...ceremonies of bravery in the ' infamy* of his nature.' No one can read this beautiful passage without being deeply impressed with the wrong done to the author... | |
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