...have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man he validity of the nuptials of Queen Catherine, While in the To solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...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 pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...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 deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...register of God, not in the record of man. There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality ! But man is a noble animal — splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths, with equal lustre; nor omitting the ceremonies of bravery in the...

...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 deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...finery. Pride takes death, and, 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...

...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 pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...velvet pall, three gentlemen's cloaks, three crape hat-bands, three hoods and scarfs, and six pairs of gloves ; two porters equipped to attend the funeral,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tadium vitas upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The...

...earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their...

...Angelani, distant about a half day's ride. [The rest of this MS. is wanting.] MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. LIFE. " MAN," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal ! splendid in ashes, glorious in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and funerals with equal lustre, and not forgetting ceremonies...