| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - Страниц: 572
...only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble" animal,"§plendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - Страниц: 1046
...only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man ia a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - Страниц: 716
...only destroy our souls, and hath assured our rnurrection, either of our bodies or names hath Jirectly promised no duration ; wherein there is so much of...expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistMicc seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - Страниц: 330
...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... | |
| Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - Страниц: 328
...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... | |
| 1884 - Страниц: 874
...extracts, might seem stilted, and even meretricious in its splendid glare of diction, as thus :—" But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." But the reader must not suppose that such passages fairly represent what he is to expect from these... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - Страниц: 1232
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies i* names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scnpu in oblivion. Rut mnn is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, nnd pompous in the grave, solemnizing... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - Страниц: 798
...and gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." "Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - Страниц: 676
...souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised i:0 duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that...But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompons in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies... | |
| Richard Penn Smith - 1856 - Страниц: 338
...his 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...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." After the funeral came a feast which was more speedly buried than poor Azib, for there is nothing like... | |
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