 The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and error's wretch, Man makes a death, which nature...  Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality - Page 69by Edward Young - 1802 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Augustus Montague Toplady - 1852 - 160 pages
...Dark ignorance is lavish of her shades; And these the formidable picture draw, Man forms a death that nature never made, Then on the point of his own fancy...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. None return from the grave to tell us what it is to die. Some happy believers have, indeed, sung in... | |
 | George W. Henry - 1853 - 528 pages
...Receives, not suffers, Death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave; The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm ; These...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one." And to continue Dr. Young's heaven-inspired reflections on this subject, I beg leave to add, and would... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...Reeeives, not suffers death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattoek, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm , These...living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and error's wreteh, Man makes a death, whieh nature never made ; Then on the point of his own faney falls ; And... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...Receives, not suffers, Death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ;...falls ; And feels a thousand Deaths in fearing one. .— Young. T7ACH friend by Fate snatch'd from us, is a plume Pluckt from the wing of human vanity,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 556 pages
...the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; 1 0 The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; r ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors...wretch, Man makes a death which nature never made ; 15 Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. But were... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pages
...— Young. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damn vault, the darkness, aud the worm, These are the bugbears of a winter's eve,...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. 4. KosciusKO.11 — Campbell. O ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia1' fell, unwept, without... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...honest fame, or grant me none ! 3. DEATH. — Young. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm, These...which Nature never made ; Then on the point of his own lancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. 4. KOSCTUSKO." — Campbell. O ! bloodiest... | |
 | 1858 - 674 pages
...Receives, not suffers, death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm, These...falls ; And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. When that shrewd observer, the travelled Lien Chi Altangi, Citizen of the World, was engaged upon his... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 pages
...fame, or grant me none ! , 3. DEATH. — Young^ The knell, the shrtmd, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm, These are the ougbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and error's... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 pages
...honest fame, or grant me none ! 3. DEATH. — Young. The kf" 11, the ghfmd, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm. These are the nugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and error's... | |
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