 | Université de Strasbourg. Faculté des lettres - 1925 - 352 sivua
...have found unhappy frustation, 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, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1837 - 622 sivua
...London, 17. New Rfilman Street, July, 1837. ART. III. On Cemeteries. By JA PICTON, Architect. " 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... | |
 | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - 1982 - 520 sivua
...an eine Stelle im j. Kapitel von Thomas Brownes »Hydriotaphia« (»Urne-Burial«) (1658): But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave <. . .>. (T. Browne, The works. Ed. by G. Keynes. Bd i. London 1964. S. 169.) 71, 16/17 Philemon u... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 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 equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 sivua
...lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Welsh poet Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English doctor, author I am a temporary enclosure for a temporary purpose;... | |
 | Susan Hill - 1992 - 198 sivua
...Adversity stretcheth out our days, misery makes Alcmena's nights, and time hath no wings to it.' '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 infancy... | |
 | Cedric Clive Brown - 1993 - 318 sivua
...assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration.... But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sivua
...were valued living. EMILY 8RONTË (181 8-48), English novelist. Withering Heights, ch. 13(1847). 5 Man " in Wine from These Grapes (1934). 10 The childhood shows the SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-82). English doctor, author. Urn Burial, ch. 5(1658). 6 All that tread. The... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sivua
...(1922-1986) British poet. "Days," st. 1, The Whitsun Weddings (1964). Written Aug. 3, 1953. Dead, the 1 Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. THOMAS BROWNE, (1605-1682) British doctor, author. Urn Burial, ch. 5 (1658). 2 An orphan's curse would... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sivua
...Generatlons pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. 1607 Hydriotaphia Man stress' I would Love you ten years before the flood: And you sh 1608 Religlo Medici Who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy?... | |
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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. 
