 | 1848 - 574 pages
...of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is much of chance that the boldest expectants 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 in the grave, solemnizing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...bodies or names hath Jirectly promised no duration ; wherein there ¡9 so much of chance, that the Henry VIL), whose chaplain he had been. In it he presents solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | 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
...our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...our bodies or names hath airectly promised no duration ; wherein there is so much of chance, that the For which cause, scupe in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Enoch and Elias, without either tomb or burial, in an anomalous state of being, are the great examples... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...writer, which our yesterday's vibit has recalled to my memory. Sir Thomas Brown says, ' Man is a nobk' animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave...equal lustre — nor omitting ceremonies of bravery even in the infamy of his nature.' " The count replied to my quotation, — " How universal is this... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 598 pages
...our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration;...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. 3 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life,... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 pages
...our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration...omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.3 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire suffieeth for... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 586 pages
...our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration...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 sufficeth for... | |
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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. 
