 | Richard Penn Smith - 1856 - 338 pàgines
...his favorite child. Azib died, and, of course, was followed to the grave by an extended retinue. " Man is a noble animal; splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." After the funeral came a feast which was more speedly buried than poor Azib, for there is nothing like... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pàgines
...our bodies or names hath directly promised i:0 duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration...But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompons in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pàgines
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 pàgines
...and 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 Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pàgines
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of" posthumous memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 448 pàgines
...our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration;...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 530 pàgines
...our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pàgines
...chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration j and to hold long subsistence, scems but a scape in oblivion. But 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 pàgines
...Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and tn hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion....ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. 11 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A. small tire sufficeth for life,... | |
 | Université de Strasbourg. Faculté des lettres - 1925 - 352 pàgines
...duration ; wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest cxpectants have found unhappy frustation, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
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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. 
