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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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JPLATE XXXVII.— THE MISER.

X he character of the Miser is very forcibly expressed in thissketch. Shut up in a vault, which receives thc light only througha wicket, secured with a double grate of thick iron bars, he isentirely taken up with his beloved treasure, a considerable partwhereof Death is snatching up before his eyes. This loss excitegin him all the Symptoms of the most violent desperation, and itplainly appears that his gold is an hundred times dearer to hisbeart than his life.

Stulte, hac nocte repetunt animam tuam: & quaß parästi, cujus•Yunt? Lucae xii. 20.

PLANCHE XXXVII.— UAYARE.

XjE ctractere de TAvare est rendu dans ce dessein avec beau-coup d'energie. Renferme dans un caveau qui ne re^oit du jourque par une lucarne garnie d'une double grille d'epais barreauxde fer, il n'est occupe que de son eher tresor, dont la Mort luicnleve ä ses yeux un portion tres-considerable. Cette perteexcite enlui tous les symptomes du plus violent desespoir, &l'onYoit bien ques on or lui tient cent fois plus ä coeur que la vie.

 
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