 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...velvet pall, three gentlemen's cloaks, three crape hat-bands, three hoods and scarfs, and six pairs of gloves ; two porters equipped to attend the funeral,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tadium vitas upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The... | |
 | Richard Penn Smith - 1856 - 338 pages
...favorite child. Azib died, and, of course, was followed to the grave by an extended retinue. " 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - American literature - 1856 - 468 pages
...Angelani, distant about a half day's ride. [The rest of this MS. is wanting.] MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. LIFE. " MAN," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal ! splendid in ashes, glorious in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and funerals with equal lustre, and not forgetting ceremonies... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of" posthumous memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 530 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 the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 448 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 the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pages
...have found unhappy frustration j and to hold long subsistence, scems but a scape in oblivion. 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 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 the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - English language - 1859 - 264 pages
...some great man with his service, and then he blusheth at his own bravery. Id., Ib. b. ii. c. 1 8. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not 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. 
