 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 584 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... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 str.
...and is appropriate in giving weight to expression by its quantity of sound ; as, in the following : " The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,...deep | damp vault, | the darkness, and the worm." Young. The same bard, whose characteristic traits were solid sentiment, animation and pathos, frequently... | |
 | 1847 - 540 str.
...Eden withers from our sight. This king of terrors is the prince of peace. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 9. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ! 10. A death-bed 'sa detector of the heart : Here tired dissimulation drops her mask, Through life's... | |
 | 1847 - 526 str.
...Eden withers from our sight. This king of terrors is the prince of peace. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 9. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ! 10. A death-bed 'sa detector of the heart : Here tired dissimulation drops her mask, Through life's... | |
 | Henry George Briggs - 1849 - 456 str.
...Servants. I left the ground early, suffering from unpleasant associations which I could not control : — The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm. Wtli November. — In the very heart of the city, in a quiet, retired quarter, which branches off from... | |
 | James Rees - 1849 - 418 str.
...his limbs stiffened — he gave a wild scream and fell prostrate ! Jane was a corpse ! CHAPTER V. " The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave...— The deep, damp vault, the darkness and the worm. — YOUNG. Some there are still living who remember old Sebastian Ale. Poor fellow ! his eccentricity... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - 1849 - 522 str.
...that my Redeemer liveth . . . and though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." " The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm — These are the terrors of the living, not the dead." Jan. 4. I have just seen a letter from my dear... | |
 | 1912 - 666 str.
...Heart ' Irving quotes the half-line " darkness and the worm " from Young's ' Night Thoughts ' :— The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm Night IV. 9. 'Corydon's Doleful Knell' (p. 129).— In my copy of Percy's ' Keliques ' it is stated... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 str.
...who are alive and remain at the coining of the Lord, who shall not sleep, but be changed. 'Tis not the knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, the deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; but the resistless disease, the rending and consuming cough, the prostrate strength, the difficult... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 str.
...here. Ere hope, sensation fails ; black-boding man Receives, not suffers, Death's tremendous blow. 10 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... | |
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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. 
