 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 terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man...  The guide of the Hebrew student, an epitome of sacred history, with easy ... - Página 63editado por - 1839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 324 páginas
...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 never made, Then on...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. But were Death frightful, what has age to fear ? If prudent, age should meet the friendly foe, And... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 páginas
...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 never made; Then on...falls ; And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. But were death frightful, what has age to fear 1 If prudent, age should meet the friendly foe, A.nd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 390 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | 1816 - 566 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 páginas
...a winter's eve, The terrours of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and errour's wretch, Man makes a death, which Nature never made ; Then...falls ; And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one. But were death frightful, what has age to fear ? If prudent, age should meet the friendly foe, And... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 páginas
...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 never made : Then on...falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. But were Death frightful, what has age to fear? If prudent, age should meet the friendly foe, And shelter... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...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 never made ; Then...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,... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 498 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 318 páginas
...not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error'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 Death frightful, what has age to fear ? If prudent, age should meet the friendly foe, And... | |
 | James Ewell - 1827 - 868 páginas
...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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