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The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper plates; done from the original designs ... ; to which are prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the scripture text from which the designs were taken
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PLATE XIX.— THE EMPRESS.

An the midst of apompous raarch, inthecourtof a great palace,Death, who seeras here to do the office of gentleman-usher,leads this Princess to the brink of a grave, and shews her thebounds within which all her grandeur is to be confined.

Gradientes in superbia potest Deus humiliare. Daniel iv. 31.

PLANCHE XIX.— L'IMPERATRICE.

Au milieu d'une marche pompeuse, dans la cour d'un vastepalais, la Mort qui paroit faire ici l'office d'ecuyer, amene cettePrincesse jusqu'au bord d'une fosse sepulcrale, pour lui fair«Toir le terme auquel ses grandeurs viendront aboutir.

 
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