 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 стор.
...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 grave, solemnizing nativities and death with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. — SIR THOMAS... | |
 | 1881 - 578 стор.
...expectants have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But which and a neighbouring * exclaimed solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | 1881 - 318 стор.
...come down to the region of the common-sense of mankind. This common-sense tells us, not merely that " man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave,"* but that he stands absolutely by himself in creation. His superiority is not of the same kind as that... | |
 | James Croston - 1882 - 488 стор.
...considerable deal of money to the poor ; Lady Sherburn serving them with her own hands that day. Of a truth man is a noble animal — splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave ! There is yet another inscription from the pen of the dowager duchess, to the memory of her second... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 стор.
...consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise; Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. . . . Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, uor omitting ceremonies of bravery iu the infaney... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 460 стор.
...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... | |
 | Charles Townshend Wilson - 1883 - 616 стор.
...to the proud Philistrian's memory. His corpse was laid among kings in the vaults of the Escorial. " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Staremberg, reinforced by some Imperial regiments, tried to profit by the death of the French general.... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 стор.
...also a practicing physician. Wrote Religion of a Physician, a treatise on Urn-Burial and other works. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. Urn-Burial. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). — An eminent writer on politics and moral philosophy. Author... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 стор.
...lay my head On my grave as now my bed ! Part fi. Stc. xil. Ruat Cffilum, fiat voluntas tua.4 fbid. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. Urn Burial, Ch. v. Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests. Ibid. Herostratus... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 382 стор.
...Pagan poet ; but a Christian bishop, in the gorgeous Elizabethan periods of a still quainter moralist, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, even in the... | |
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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 of his nature. 
