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" 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... "
The Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young: With the Life of the Author - Page 75
by Edward Young - 1805
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The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young - Death - 1816 - 390 pages
...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...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...
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The baptist Magazine

1816 - 566 pages
...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...
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Coraly

Coraly (fict.name.) - 1819 - 766 pages
...The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave j 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.'' • . . . A SENSE of duty never forsook Coraly in the most trying situation. Religion's benign influence...
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The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts

Edward Young - 1824 - 356 pages
...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...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...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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...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,...
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The Works of Augustus M. Toplady, Volume 3

Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 498 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 returns from the grave to tell us what it is to die. Some happy believers have indeed sung in...
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The Complaint: Or Night Thoughts, and the Force of Religion

Edward Young - 1826 - 318 pages
...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, 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...
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The Complaint: Or Night Thoughts, and the Force of Religion

Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1826 - 284 pages
...; 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...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...
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Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ...

General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...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...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,...
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The Medical Companion: Or Family Physician; Treating of the Diseases of the ...

James Ewell - Cooking - 1827 - 868 pages
...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,...
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