 | American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...earthly 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...expectants have f -unj unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. a wisdom without them, and above tb :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 - Rome (Italy) - 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...expectants 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...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 sufficeth for life,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...expectants 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 the ргате, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lu~tre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
 | 1848 - 574 pages
...have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape^in oblivion. Bnt'man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...nativities and deaths with [equal lustre, nor omitting' ceremonies^of bravery in the infamy of his nature. — Sir T. Browne. FLATTERY SOMETIMES SERVICEABLE.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1874 - 714 pages
...hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in »shes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." JA PlCTON. Sandyknowe, Wavertree. PHILIPPE CORSAT.— On the 26th of September, Switzerland's b;irber-poet... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 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.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. ple of the validity of the nuptials of Queen Catherine, While in the To solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
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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. 
