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The English dance of death / from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson. With metrical illustrations, by the author of "Doctor syntax". London : Ackermann's Repository of Art, 1816 : 1. 1815 [erschienen] 1816

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Illustration Time & Death their Thoughts impart / On Works of Learning, & of Art.

PDF The Antiquary's Last Will & Testament.

Illustration Fungus, at length, contrives to get / Death's Dart into his Cabinet.

PDF The Last Chase.

Illustration Such mortal Sport the Chase attends: / At Break-Neck Hill, the Hunting Ends.

PDF The Statesman.

Illustration Not all the Statesman's power or art / Can turn aside Death's certain Dart.

PDF Tom Higgins.

Illustration His blood is stopp'd in eviry vein. / He ne'er will eat or drink again.

PDF The Shipwreck.

Illustration The Danger of the Ocean Oer. / Death Wrecks the Sailors on the Shore.

PDF The Virago.

Illustration Her tongue & temper to subdue: / Can only be perform'd by you.

PDF 68 The Glutton.

Illustration What do these savry meats delight you? / Begone, & stay, till I invite you.

PDF The Recruit.

Illustration I list you, and you'll soon be found, / One of my regiment unter ground.

PDF The Maiden Ladies.

Illustration Be not alarm'd: _I'm only come / To choose a wife, & light her home.

PDF The Quack Doctor.

Illustration I have a secret art to cure / Each malady which men endure.

PDF The Sot.

Illustration Drunk and alive, the man was thine, / But dead & drunk, why, _ he is mine.

PDF 106 The Honey Moon.

Illustration When the old fool has drank his wine / And gone to rest, I will be thine.

PDF The Hunter unkennelled.

Illustration Yes. Nimrod, you may look aghast: / I have unkennel'd you at least.

PDF The Good Man, Death, and the Doctor.

Illustration No scene so blest in Virtue's eyes, / As when the Man of Virtue dies.

PDF Death and the Portrait.

Illustration Nature and Truth are not at strife: / Death draws his pictures after Life.

PDF The Genealogist.

Illustration On that illumin'd roll of Fame, / Death waits to write your Lordship's name.

PDF The Catchpole.

Illustration The Catchpole need not fear a jail, / The Undertaker is his Bail.

PDF The Insurance Office.

Illustration Insure his Life. _ But to your sorrow, / You'll pay a good, round Sum tomorrow.

PDF 168 The Schoolmaster.

Illustration Death, with his dart proceeds to flog / Th'astonish'd, flogging Pedagogue.

PDF The Coquette.

Illustration I'll lead you to the splendid Croud: / But your next dress will be a shroud.

PDF Time & Death, and Goody Barton.

Illustration On with your dead: & I'll contrive / To bury this old Fool alive.

PDF The Undertaker & the Quack.

Illustration The Doctor's sick'ning toil to close. / "Recipe Coffin", is the Dose.

PDF 190 The Masquerade.

Illustration Such is the power, & such the strife. / That ends the Masquerade of Life.

PDF The Death Blow.

Illustration How vain are all your triumphs past, / For this Set-To will be your last.

PDF The Vision of Skulls.

Illustration As it appears, though dead so long, / Each scull is found to have a tongue.

PDF The Porter's Chair.

Illustration What watchful Care the Portal keeps! / A Porter He, who never sleeps.

PDF 238 The Pantomime.

Illustration Behold the signal of Old Time: / That bids you close your Pantomime.

PDF 245 The Horse Race.

245 Illustration This is a very break Neck Heat: / And Squire Jockey you are beat.

PDF The Dram Shop.

Illustration Some find their Death by Sword & Bullet; / And some by fluids down the Gullet.

PDF 258 The Gaming Table.

Illustration Whene'er Death plays. He's sure to win: / He'll take each knowing Gamester in.

PDF 264 The Battle.

Illustration Such is, alas, the common Story / Of Blood & Wounds, of Death & Glory.

PDF 272 The Wedding.

Illustration Plutus commands, & to the Arms / Of doting Age, She yeilds her Charms.

PDF The Skaters.

Illustration On the frail Ice, the whirring Skate / Becomes an Instrument of Fate.

PDF The Duel.

Illustration Here Honour, as it is the mode, / To Death consigns the wighty load.

PDF The Bishop and Death.

Illustration Though I may yield my forfeit breath, / The word of Life defies thee, Death.

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