 | Mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1859 - 282 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 Seiten
...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 nativii ties and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 Seiten
...Pagan poet ; but a Christian bishop, in the gorgeous Elizabethan periods of a still quainter moralist, "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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 Seiten
...any thing in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus." Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. **M*M>, PRIDE. I thank God amongst those millions... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 502 Seiten
...taking the gravestone for his faith to lean on, exclaims, with an intonation truly Miltonic, " Bat man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 Seiten
...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 in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 Seiten
...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 in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 Seiten
...porters equipped to attend the funeral, a man to attend the same with band and gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." "Man," says...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tcedium vitoe upon one to read it Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
 | Buffalo (N.Y.). Forest Lawn Cemetery - 1867 - 188 Seiten
...mysterious reunion of the soul and body which makes the resurrection, will be conserved by God. " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." But how far avail posthumous splendor and funeral pomp? A name may be perpetuated through time, but... | |
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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. 
