Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 314
hat this endurance offearful images is partly associated with indecency, partly THE DANCE OF DEATH. 293 with general fatuity and weakness of mind. ^ But may itnot rather be the healthy reaction from morbid images ofterror, with which a purely natural and inevitable eventhas so long been invested by… … Fig. 20.—The Knight and Death. marks the priestly terrorism, which could not fail to bevulgarised even more by the frivolous. In 1424 there wasa masquerade of the Dance of Death in the Cemetery ofthe Innocents at Paris, attended by the Duke of Bedfordand the Duke of Burgundy, just returned from…
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