...again Charleston. Drawing her theme from a passage in Sir Thomas Browne's Urne-Buriall (1658), "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave," Pinckney traces the fall and rise and fall again of the reputation of Augustus Grimshawe, the classic...

...itself 59] adequaey 6ll] heaven or hell 61 1 a transgresston owing to oversight by obltvton But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemn i /ing nativities and deatbs with equal lustre, nor omitting eeremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...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. (Religio Medici, 1643) » (Jeremy Taylor, 1613-67) ° (Holy Living, 1650) ffi...

...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...the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame,...

...with mortality. She drew a line from Sir Thomas Browne's Hydrotaphia; or Urne-Buriall (1658): "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." The ironic title set the tone of the book, a satire on twentieth-century Charleston society executed...

...remained inaccessible to the weaknesses of other men. 5 It is the observation of sir Thomas Browne: "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." One of the most remarkable examples of this is to he found in the pyramids of Egypt. They are generally...

...title: Lie Down in Darkness.) Another three-part two-parter should be more famous than it is. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Really there should be a colon after "animal," and everything after the colon is a single clause, soaring...