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The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson; (1903)

Combe, William, 1742-1823, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · London, Methuen and co. · leaf 309

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he Sun;But Autumn sees its beauty gone:Chilld by Winter cold it lies,To be renewd neath milder skies.Such is the whole progressive spanThat marks the longest life of Man :But, by experience, we are taughtThe various means that make it short.Disease, with its destructive Train,And all the Family of… … ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH 231 With parching pain ;—the Stone,That parent of the heaving groan ;The Gout, and all its racking pains,Or Frenzy, writhing in its chains,And many an ill of doubtful nameThat harrasses the human frame.Nor these alone : Heart-breaking Care \With pining Love, and fell…

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