 | 1830 - 550 sivua
...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 in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1830 - 432 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... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 614 sivua
...remained inaccessible to the weaknesses of other men a. It is the observation of sir Thomas Browne : " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." One of the most remarkable examples of this is to be found in the pyramids of Egypt. They are generally... | |
 | 1831 - 370 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... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 504 sivua
...inaccessible to the weaknesses of other men * . It is the observation of sir Thomas Browne : " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." One of the most remarkable examples of this is to be found in the pyramids of Egypt. They are generally... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 sivua
...strong elm coffin, covered with superfine black, and finished with two rows, all round, close drove, best japanned nails, and adorned with ornamental drops,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tedium vltte upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing tp die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
 | 1835 - 642 sivua
...strong elm coffin, covered with •uperfine black, and finished with two rows, all round, close drove, best japanned nails, and adorned with ornamental drops,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a ttedium vita upon one to read it. Methinks I could he willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 376 sivua
...strong elm coffin, covered with superfine black, and finished with two rows, all round, close drove, best japanned nails, and adorned with ornamental drops,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tedium vita upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
 | 1835 - 432 sivua
...shroud, cap, and pillow. For use, a handsome velvet pall, three gentlemen's cloaks, three crape hathands, three hoods and scarfs, and six pair of gloves ; two...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tadium mix upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
 | 1835 - 430 sivua
...shroud, cap, and pillow. For use, a handsome velvet pall, three gentlemen's cloaks, three crape hathands, three hoods and scarfs, and six pair of gloves ; two...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a (1edium vita upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
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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. 
