 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
 | 1820 - 394 pages
...taking the grave stone for his faith to lean on, and for his hope's moveless resting place—" But 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." were, and have new names given... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 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 infamy of his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 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 infamy of his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...the trophies of departed glory. " Man is a noble animal ; splendid in ashes, and pompous in the dust, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature."* But time has here defrauded the warrior of his fame. The figure of Geoffrey... | |
 | 1821 - 770 pages
...the trophies of departed glory. "Man is a noble animal; splendid in ashes, and pompous in the dust, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature."* But time has here defrauded the warrior of his fame. The figure of Geoffrey... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...the trophies of departed glory. " Man is a noble animal ; splendid in ashes, and pompous in the dust, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature."* But time has here defrauded the warrior 01 his fame. The figure of Geoffrey... | |
 | 1823 - 736 pages
...unto 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 infamy of his nature."— pp. 28, 29. The following brief citation ies unto our merauneo, «!..;,,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 528 pages
...than eloquence, in the words of an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature;" — the rt'ason for which is explained by another author, in words still more sublime and exhilarating... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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 in...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 tire... | |
 | 1823 - 684 pages
...dependent being, and within the reach of destruction, which is the peculiar of that Decenary essence grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature." — pp. 28, 29. The following brief citation will not unaptly conclude the series... | |
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