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 - Страница 69написао/ла Edward Young - 1802 - 361 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Edward Young - 1826 - 284 страница
...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 ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, i The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man makes a death... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 страница
...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...on the point of his own fancy falls,. And feels a thousands deaths, in fearing one, — Young. REPARATION. — If thou hast done an injury to another,... | |
| James Ewell - 1827 - 868 страница
...bravado amidst company, but will tremble before him in solitude, and shudder at the approach of death. Man makes a death which nature never made, Then on...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. Yocuo. Voltaire, a man who, after having long and too justly been considered the patron of infidelity,... | |
| 1827 - 290 страница
...shall I die ? When shall I live forever ? ***** The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ;...winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. * The bell did not toll at the author's funeral, nor was any one allowed to be drest in mourning; no... | |
| Richard Dagley - 1828 - 562 страница
...conscious that the ' fear of death,' abstractedly considered, ' is most in apprehension ;' or that, ' imagination's fool and error's wretch, man makes a...falls, and feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.' No, no — the Prince, nursed and wrapped in the splendour and luxuries of a gay and rich metropolis,... | |
| 1828 - 414 страница
...shades — ' And these the formidable picture draw. ' Man forms a death that nature never made, ' And on the point of his own fancy falls, ' And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one." The celebrated poet Cowper, in a letter to his friend Joseph Hill, speaks of the only way to Jook at... | |
| Extracts - 1828 - 786 страница
...grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These arc the bugbears of a winter's eve r Imagination's fool, and error's wretch. Man makes a death which nature never made y Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. YotJXff. Why... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 страница
...cannot distinguish by fancy from the image of a figure that has nine hundred angles. if . ••« Imagination's fool and error's wretch Man makes a death which Nature never made.. Young. For this was thy fair image Stampt on his soul in godlike lineaments ? Purteiu'l Dealt. Now... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 страница
...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, Han makes a death, which... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 страница
...grave ; The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; [eve, These are the bugbears of a winter's The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's...falls; And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one. {From Night Though*'-] NIGHT v. DIFFERENT SOURCES OF FUNERAL TEARS. OUR funeral tears from different... | |
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