 | 1841 - 986 pages
...its success was derided by many of the miners of the adjacent coal-field." MONUMENTS TO THE DEAD. " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."— SIR TUOMAS BROWNE. THE practice of erecting monuments to the dead is of great antiquity. It is almost... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - 1840 - 56 pages
...MEMBEBS OP THE OXFOBD SOCIETY FOB PBOMOTING THE STUDY OP GOTHIC ABCHITECTUBE. BY JH MARKLAND, FRSSA Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing natjj-ities and deaths with equal lustre."—Sir T. Brown, Hydriotaphia, chap. v. OXFORD, JOHN HENBY... | |
 | 1840 - 520 pages
...and, for its especial purpose, tricks it out in the frippery of life. "Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " 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... | |
 | Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar - 1841 - 426 pages
...sun to paint of all hues and shades, from the quietest grey to the most gorgeous purple. CHAPTER X. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. SIR THOMAS BROWNB. En songeant quelquefois aux elucubrations auxquelles la latitude de mon sujet m'a... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 pages
...AND ON THE EXPEDIENCY OF RENDERING SUBSERVIENT TO PIOUS AND CHRISTIAN USES BY JH MARKLAND, FRS & SA Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solem nizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, SIR T. BROWNE, OXFORD, JOHN HENRY PARKER: OF... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...expectants have f -unj unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But ֘ K :rare, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...grandest efforts of mind or hand after ' a diuturnity of memory.' To baffle the powers of Death has been * 'Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grnve, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 pages
...deeply. The subtlety of this distinction is worthy of a Jesuit. V. A DAY AMONG THE TOMBS OF ROME. " MAN is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave," and most splendid and pompous of all mankind were the ancient Romans. Their Emperors raised gigantic... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he Cometh unto you, with ргате, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lu~tre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 238 pages
...expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scaps in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativitioj and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.... | |
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But 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 of his nature. 
