 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 270 Seiten
...bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and errors wretch, Man makes a death which Nature never made...on the point of his own fancy "falls ; And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. GRATITUDE. — Shakespeare. I have five hundred crowns, — The thrifty... | |
 | 1888 - 340 Seiten
...his mind, which is to be found a'mongthe opening lines of Night Fourth of the " Night Thoughts :" " Man makes a death, which nature never made; Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand dcatlis, in fearing one." 348. In 1803 the yellow fever made great ravages in New York. Can... | |
 | 1891 - 556 Seiten
...living, not the dead, Imagination's fool, and error's wretch, Man makes a death, which nature nevet made, Then on the point of his own fancy falls; And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one Young A FILM BEFORE. There is before the eyes of men, on the brink of... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 Seiten
...make no difference." Deaths, A thousand. Young, in " Night Thoughts," Night III., has the lines,— Man makes a death which nature never made; Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. Evidently a reminiscence of Shakespeare : Cowards die many times before... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 Seiten
...difference." Deaths, A thousand. Young, in " Night Thoughts," Night III., has the lines, — Man makes л death which nature never made ; Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. Evidently a reminiscence of Shakespeare : Cowards die many times before... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 Seiten
...In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates. Belsliazzar, Pt. II. H. MORE. Imagination's fool and error's wretch, Man makes a...on the point of his own fancy falls ; And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one. Night Thoughts, Night IV. DR. E. YOUNG. A lamb appears a lion, and... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 Seiten
...rivers wind, And though immerged in earth from human eyes, Again break forth, and more conspicuous rise. Man makes a death which nature never made; Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. —YOUNG. Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1112 Seiten
...difference." Deaths, A thousand. Young, in "Night Thoughts," Night III., has the lines, — Man malces a death which nature never made ; Then on the point of his own fancy falls. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. Evidently a reminiscence of Shakespeare : Cowards die many times before... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 Seiten
...MILTON. Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. Paradise Lost. Baft IL MILTON. Imagination's fool, and error's wretch, Man makes...on the point of his own fancy falls ; And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one. Kirlit Tliou[las. DR. E. YOUNG. So mayst thou live, till like ripe... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 Seiten
...make no difference." Deaths, A thousand. Young, in " Night Thoughts," Night III., has the lines, — Man makes a death which nature never made ; Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. Evidently a reminiscence of Shakespeare : Cowards die many times before... | |
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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... 
