The english dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson. With metrical illus. by the author of "Doctor Syntaz" (1903)
Combe, William, 1742-1823, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 (illus.) · New York Appleton · leaf 298
of Life we view,We might believe his maxim true.For, turning from the hostile rageWhich Histry gives of evry age,And offers, to the pitying eye,The Horrors of that Deity;Whose lightnings have so oft been hurldTo thin and terrify the world,We cant deny the daily strifeThat interrupts domestic… … ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH 229 Lame, weak and deaf, and almost blind, To his arm-chair He was confind : And while theres Life, theres Hope, they say; And three PHYSICIANS every day,Came, gravely, for their daily pay.A NURSE too, who her labours pliedIn watching sick men till they died,Had all that…
Dance of death
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