The pomp of the ceremony was a kind of rhapsody, and fitter, I think, for Hudibras, than him; because the cavalcade was mostly burlesque: but he was an extraordinary man, and buried after an extraordinary fashion; for I do believe there was never such another burial seen.

Yet pomp is not the only merit of this play.

In every other respect, too, the pomp and circumstance of the funeral was past description.

Its pomp of divine syllables and glorious images is no more the poetry of Milton than the idea of man which he expressed.

Even here, amid the sweep of endless woods, Blue pomp of lakes, high cliffs and falling floods, Not undelightful are the simplest charms, 145 Found by the grassy door of mountain-farms.

Pomp is its very object; it would be absurd to have columns and pyramids blushing in some coy nook like violets in the woods of spring.

"Barbaric pomp and gold" is a fine thing; but a medallion, as heavy and as cumbrous as a shield, appended to a lady's bosom, would be any thing but a luxury.

But he was always mild and meek in the retirement of his home,a truly domestic man, to whom pomp was a weariness.