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. The Quarterly Review - Page 346edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 308 pages
...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...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamyf of his nature." No one can read this beautiful passage without being deeply impressed with... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...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...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omiting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an... | |
 | David Hoffman - 1841 - 380 pages
...ejaculations — requiescat in pace — sit ilia terra levis ! Well may we say with Sir Thomas Brown — 'Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.' It were indeed, a vain hope, by... | |
 | Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar - 1841 - 426 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 956 pages
...glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory, — yet man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery even in the infamy of his nature." Two mighty pens — the one in the hand of Edmund Burke, the other... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...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 infamy of bis nature.' — Sir T. Browne's Urn-burial, ch. v. AUGUST, №44. 29 dust from whence he... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the :rare, solemnising _ %b l A t t _> 3 dF j ( 7͈ } 5 s + ߓ$ BifM infamy of his nature. ». * Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory,... | |
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