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 - Página 346editado por - 1819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 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
...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...lustre, nor omitting 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... | |
| 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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." JA PlCTON. Sandyknowe, Wavertree. PHILIPPE CORSAT.— On the 26th of September,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1849 - 238 páginas
...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.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man he validity of the nuptials of Queen Catherine, While in the To solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| 1859 - 748 páginas
...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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Enoch and Elias, without either tomb or burial, in an anomalous state of being,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 páginas
...writer, which our yesterday's vibit has recalled to my memory. Sir Thomas Brown says, ' Man is a nobk' animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave...equal lustre — nor omitting ceremonies of bravery even in the infamy of his nature.' " The count replied to my quotation, — " How universal is this... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 páginas
...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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.3 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 586 páginas
...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...lustre, nor omitting 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... | |
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