Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French : intended as well for the infomation of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe (1789)
Bewick, John, 1760-1795, Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842, Hodgson, Thomas, fl. 1785-1817 · London : Printed for T. Hodgson ... · leaf 73
Exhaufted Strength my feeble NervesNo longer now does brace, And, like a Rivers rapid Stream,My Life flows out apace. The Time, which no One can recall,How fwift a Flight has taen ! And nothing but the filent TombFor me does now remain. Tird of the Ills of a long Life, And fick of all its Cares,For… … In numrous Joys their rapid LifeThe thoughtlefs Virgins wafte, And evry Kind of Pleafure feekWith Eagernefs to tafte. From Cares and Sorrow they are free,No Thought their Minds to tire, A vacant Life, full fraught with Blifs,They earneftly defire. But in the Grave they mail be laid,By Deaths…
Dance of death
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