...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 are the bugbears of a winter's eve : • '• * Seattle on Truth. P.iii. cS The terrors of the living, not the dead. — The Aged. Man...

...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 ;...one. But were death frightful, what has age to fear 1 If prudent, age should meet the friendly foe, A.nd shelter in his hospitable gloom. I scarce can...

...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 ;...which Nature never made ; Then on the point of his own 4ancy falls ; Andyee/sa thousand deaths, in fearing one. But were death frightful, what has age to...

...anticipation ! What has been remarked of . death, applies to anticipated uifliction. " Man forms n death that nature never made; Then on the point of his own fancy falls j And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one!" How often have you felt a thousand anxieties in fearing...

...intimate acquaintance with her. CHAP. XVIII. " The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave j The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm ; These...winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.'' • . . . A SENSE of duty never forsook Coraly in the most trying situation. Religion's benign influence...

...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 are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrours of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and errour's wretch, Man makes a death, which...

...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 ;...one. But were death frightful, what has age to fear s If prudent, age should meet the friendly foe, And shelter in his hospitable gloom. I scarce can meet...

...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's Night Thoughts, n. 4. Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd,...

...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 returns from the grave to tell us what it is to die. Some happy believers have indeed sung in...

...Receives, not suffers, Death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; 10 The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ;...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...