 | John Claudius Loudon - 1837 - 622 pages
...few. London, 17. New Rfilman Street, July, 1837. ART. III. On Cemeteries. By JA PICTON, Architect. " 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... | |
 | 1881 - 970 pages
...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,'4 but ,that he stands absolutely by himself in creation. His superiority is not of the same... | |
 | 1881 - 972 pages
...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,'4 but that he stands absolutely by himself in creation. His superiority is not of the same kind... | |
 | 1881 - 972 pages
...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,'4 but that he stands absolutely by himself in creation. His superiority Ls not of the same kind... | |
 | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - 1982 - 520 pages
...Anlehnung an eine Stelle im j. Kapitel von Thomas Brownes »Hydriotaphia« (»Urne-Burial«) (1658): But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave <. . .>. (T. Browne, The works. Ed. by G. Keynes. Bd i. London 1964. S. 169.) 71, 16/17 Philemon u... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Welsh poet Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English doctor, author I am a temporary enclosure for a temporary purpose;... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 pages
...Browne's ultimate achievement in the modulation of auditory cadences: "Man is a Noble Animal, splended in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature" (p. 313). Within the... | |
 | Cedric Clive Brown - 1993 - 318 pages
...of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who only can destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration.... But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...were valued living. EMILY 8RONTË (181 8-48), English novelist. Withering Heights, ch. 13(1847). 5 ies." in Wine from These Grapes (1934). 10 The childhood shows the SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-82). English doctor, author. Urn Burial, ch. 5(1658). 6 All that tread. The... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1922-1986) British poet. "Days," st. 1, The Whitsun Weddings (1964). Written Aug. 3, 1953. Dead, the 1 Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. THOMAS BROWNE, (1605-1682) British doctor, author. Urn Burial, ch. 5 (1658). 2 An orphan's curse would... | |
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But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names... 
