 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...frustration; arid to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a nobl* animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature: * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...seems but a scape iri oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the gravej solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments; to live in their productions, to exist... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...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...for which is explained by another author, in words Mill more sublime and exhilarating : — " For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." Dr. Gooch. — In the autumn of 1822, Gooch made a tour through North Wales;... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.' ' Man,' says the same writer, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities...ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of his nature.' It is indeed worthy of notice, that the Caffres are the only savages who have ever been found in so... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.' * Man/ says the same writer, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities...ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of his nature.' It is indeed worthy of notice, that the Caffres are the only savages who have ever been found in so... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...faith to lean on, and for his hope's moveless resting place — " But 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 infamy of his nature." How stupendous is the following... | |
 | 1820 - 394 pages
...faith to lean on, and for his hope's moveless resting place—" But 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 infamy of his nature." were, and have new names given... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...; 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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire... | |
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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. 
