. Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates . vided it were first replenished with ancient and sound 202 DEATH S DOINGS. mortifying and trying to the temper that can be ima-gined. As, from the distance of time, and thescarcity of the work, some of the particulars maynot be unacceptable to the reader, and, as it mayalso serve as a beacon or warning voice to the tyroin virtu, we hope to be excused for having made solong an extract. R. D. port, such
. Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates . vided it were first replenished with ancient and sound 202 DEATH S DOINGS. mortifying and trying to the temper that can be ima-gined. As, from the distance of time, and thescarcity of the work, some of the particulars maynot be unacceptable to the reader, and, as it mayalso serve as a beacon or warning voice to the tyroin virtu, we hope to be excused for having made solong an extract. R. D. port, such as he, the said Secretarj, had often quaifed (though withstrict moderation, and merely to wash down the cobwebs of Archaeo-logy) on Thursday evenings, at the Somerset Cotfee-house, in theStrand. How much is the impertinent levity of this age to be deplored fPity it is, that the poems of Roxvley and* the record of Hardykiiutesdeath were destined to emerge during such an era of laughter, scepti-cism, and incredulity. The tail-piece here subjoined is accurately copied from a print in theEuropean Magazine for March, 1790, where it is given as a correct re-presentation ol the venerable r—^^7
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