...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...

...cause, that we think with so much horror of the physical circumstances which succeed our death : — " The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm." In explanation of this horror, of which it is impossible for us to divest ourselves, it is usually...

...Vespasian with a jest; Galba with a sentence; and Septimus Scvcruswith a form of despatch. Lord Bacon. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave...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...

...morally salutary to the survivors, people will judge according to their feelings and temperament. ' The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,...The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm,' are two frequently made the ill-founded ' Terrors of the living, not the dead ;' but, on the other...

...NIGHT IV. FALSE TERRORS IN VIEW OF DEATH. WHY start at death ! Where is he ? Death arrived, Is past; not come, or gone, he's never here. Ere hope, sensation...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 fool...

...house, and the vaulted sepulchre, the terrific appendages of mouldering bones and winding-sheets, " The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm," which, from custom, form so great a part of the horror we feel at the thoughts of death, were to them...

...objects, some analogy to the phantom that pursued him. Death, with all its train of dismal attributes, — The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm, — stood continually before his view, and rendered him insensible to all the attractive varieties...

...objects, some analogy to the phantom that pursued hhn. Death, with all its train of dismal attributes, — The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm, — stood continually before his view, and rendered him insensible to all the attractive varieties...

...COWPER. DEATH. WHY start at death ! Where is he ? death arrived, la past ; not come or gone, he 's never here. Ere hope, sensation fails ; black-boding...and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and ihe worm; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's...

...dread of death ! I sing its sov'reign cure. Why start at death? where is he ? death arrived la past : not come, or gone, he's never here. Ere hope, sensation...shroud, the mattock, and the grave; The deep damp van It, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living,...