 | 1827 - 290 str.
...72. When shall I die to vanity, pain, death ? When shall I die ? When shall I live forever ? ***** 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. * The bell did... | |
 | Thomas Brown, Levi Hedge - 1827 - 400 str.
...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... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 str.
...never here. Ere hope, sensation fails, black boding man Receives, not suffers, 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... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 str.
...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 ; The 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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 str.
...here. Ere lutpc, sensation fails ; black-boding man Receives, not suffers, 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 terrours of the living, not the dead. Imagination's... | |
 | Dates - 1831 - 406 str.
...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... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 str.
...fear death, as children fear the dark ; and as the one is increased with tales, so is the other." " 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 terror of the living, not the dead." YOUNG. The dissolution... | |
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 str.
...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... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1834 - 456 str.
...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... | |
 | Rival sisters - 1834 - 192 str.
...hert. Ere hope, sensation fails ; black-boding man deceives, not suffers, 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. LIFE. YOUNG. HENCE,... | |
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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. 
