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" How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things : They make, and then they dread, my stings. "
Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining - Page 61
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1785 - 276 pages
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Parnell - Irish poetry - 1866 - 324 pages
...a peal of hollow groans, Thus speaking from among the bones. ' When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things : They make, and then they dread, my stings. Fools ! if you less provok'd your fears,...
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Poetical Works: With a Memoir

Thomas Parnell - 1866 - 358 pages
...a peal of hollow groans, Thus speaking from among the bones. ' When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things : They make, and then they dread, my stings. Fools ! if you less provok'd your fears,...
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Class-book of English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...a peal of hollow groans, Thus speaking from among the bones. "When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things ; They make, and then they draw, my strings. Fools ! if you less provoke your fears,...
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Virgil in English Rhythm: With Illustrations from the British Poets, from ...

Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 376 pages
...peal of hollow groans, Thus speaking from among the bones : ' When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things ; They make, and then they dread, my stings. Fools ! if you less provok'd your fears,...
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Dawn to daylight; or, Gleams from the poets of twelve centuries

Dawn - 1874 - 340 pages
...Thus speaking from among the bones : A NIGHT PIECE ON DEATH. " When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things ; They make, and then they draw, my strings. Fools ! if you less provoked your fears,...
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The hermit and other writings, ed. with notes [&c.] by T. Kirk, Issue 661

Thomas Parnell - 1874 - 72 pages
...charnel-house with dew, Methinks I hear a voice begin ; * * * # * ' When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things : They make, and then they dread, my stings. Fools ! if you less provok'd your fears,...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...peal of hollow groans, Thus speaking from among th« bones : " When men my scythe and darts supply, ohnson last of things ; They make, and then they draw, my strings. Fools ! if you less provok'd your fears,...
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The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell: With a Life of Each ...

Charles Churchill, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell - 1880 - 724 pages
...a peal of hollow groans, Thus speaking from among the bones. ' When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things : They make, and then they dread, my stings. Fools ! if you less provok'd your fears,...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew ...

Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...a peal of hollow groans, Thus speaking from among the bones. " When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things, They make, and then they dread, my stings. Fools ! if you less provoked your fears,...
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The Age of Pope

John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...the final lines of A Night Piece on Death shall be quoted : ' When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things, They make and then they draw my stings. Fools ! if you less provoked your fears, No...
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