 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 - Página 69por Edward Young - 1802 - 361 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 254 páginas
...JReceives — not suffers, — death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave. The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ;...and error's wretch, Man makes a death which Nature nei'cr made; Then on the point of his own fancy falls ; And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1879 - 624 páginas
...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 ;...one. But were death frightful, what has age to fear 1 If prudent, age should meet the friendly foe, And shelter in his hospitable gloom. 20 I scarce can... | |
 | Edward Young - 1880 - 794 páginas
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 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...MILTON. Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son und foe. Paradise Lost, BoaJklL MILTON. n James Grant" James Grant Wilson( Kifhl TJieufitts. DR. E. YOI.-NG. So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou diop Into thy mother's... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 páginas
...Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, Night IV, v. 1 1 : The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bugbears (Schreckgestalt, Popanz) of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. ls) to lay low... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...life, quite in the verge of heaven. Ib. n. 633. 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. Ib. iv. 10. Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay ; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there ;... | |
 | George Hughes Hepworth - 1881 - 246 páginas
...natural a change as sleep is, and has no more pain connected with it. It is Young who said or sang, ' Man makes a death, which nature never made, Then on...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one ?' " It was late that very evening that the final struggle occurred. I lay, with my eyes open and fixed... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 páginas
...—Polish of Mickicwicz. CL.—SHORT SELECTIONS. 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. THREATENINO. IF thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot, Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame, —... | |
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