...1067 Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 15 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. 1068 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 10 Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay ; And if in death...

...lines of Edward Young (Night Thoughts, 1 742) — "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 fantastic horrors with which the mind of the average sensual man has surrounded the grave " are...

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...MILTON. Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. Paradise Lost. Baft IL MILTON. Imagination's fool, and error's wretch, Man makes...falls ; And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one. Kirlit Tliou[las. DR. E. YOUNG. So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou dix>p Into thy mother's...

...make no difference." Deaths, A thousand. Young, in " Night Thoughts," Night III., has the lines, — Man makes a death which nature never made ; Then on...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. Evidently a reminiscence of Shakespeare : Cowards die many times before their death ; The valiant never...

...tangle of mystery and fear and demons and dreams. After the long lapse of ages, it still is true that "Imagination's fool, and error's wretch, Man makes...falls, And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one." In trying to approach the subject in a rational frame of mind I am sustained by no faith in the omnipotence...

...escape the penetration of knowing criticks. 19 Boswell omits a line from Young (Night Thoughts, 4) : Man makes a death which nature never made, Then on...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. The line from Julius Caesar occurs in 2. 2 . 32. The irregular punctuation of the introduction to the...

...appositions (Ch. II, 41, c, Note; Ch. XXVI, 21, b). I. 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. YOUNG, Night T h oug hts, V, 10. II. His face, his figure, his mode of speech, his habit of thought,...

...escape the penetration of knowing criticks. 19 Boswell omits a line from Young (Night Thoughts, 4) : Man makes a death which nature never made, Then on the point of his own fancy fall«, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. The line from Julius Caesar occurs in 2. 2 . 32....