| 1823 - 736 sivua
...unto 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 grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 528 sivua
...than eloquence, in the words of an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " 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 infancy... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 sivua
...ап> lined, and ruffled with fine crape ; a handsome crape shroud, cap, and pdlow. For use, a haudsome velvet pall, three gentlemen's cloaks, three crape...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." AVhoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 sivua
...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 grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| 1826 - 488 sivua
...equipped to attend the funeral, a man to attend the same with band and gloves ; also the burial fees to be paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces ntoudmm vitte upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended.... | |
| 1826 - 548 sivua
...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 grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 sivua
...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 grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 456 sivua
...dress had been, in the same journal, scarce eighteen months before. " Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, " 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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 466 sivua
...dress had been, in the same journal, scarce eighteen months before. " Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, " 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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 452 sivua
...dress had been, in the same journal, scarce eighteen months before. " Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, " 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... | |
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