| 1823 - 684 oldal
...dependent being, and within the reach of destruction, which is the peculiar of that Decenary essence grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal...nature." — pp. 28, 29. The following brief citation will not unaptly conclude the series we have given, and sum up the interesting subject to which they... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 oldal
...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." AVhoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and... | |
| 1826 - 548 oldal
...directly promised no duration ; wherein there is so much of chance that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence,...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature ! i < Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 oldal
...directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence,...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, great... | |
| 1826 - 548 oldal
...duration; wherein there is so much of chance that the boldest expectants have found unhappy-frustration, and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in...pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities and deaths Avith equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature ! Life is a pure... | |
| 1826 - 488 oldal
...; also the burial fees to be 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... | |
| 1820 - 398 oldal
...burial, taking the grave stone for his faith to lean on, and for his hope's moveless resting place — " But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grace, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1828 - 266 oldal
...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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 466 oldal
...dress had been, in the same journal, scarce eighteen months before. " Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." These things led me in spirit to the vault, and I thought of the memorable dead among whom her mortal... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 452 oldal
...dress had been, in the same journal, scarce eighteen months before. " Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." These things led me in spirit to the vault, and I thought of the memorable dead among whom her mortal... | |
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