. The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson;. roke, throughout the piece,All animations made to cease. —The Painter brings the promisd aid,And views the change that has been sees the Pictures alterd state,And owns the master-hand of Fate. * But why, he cries, should Artists grieve * When Models die,—if Pictures live ? Il8 ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH THE GENEALOGIST Of all the Passions that infestThe mansion of the human breast,Which trouble with continual strifeThe nobler Charities of Life;That which stirs up the greatest pother,And claims to bear down evry other,Is
. The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson;. roke, throughout the piece,All animations made to cease. —The Painter brings the promisd aid,And views the change that has been sees the Pictures alterd state,And owns the master-hand of Fate. * But why, he cries, should Artists grieve * When Models die,—if Pictures live ? Il8 ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH THE GENEALOGIST Of all the Passions that infestThe mansion of the human breast,Which trouble with continual strifeThe nobler Charities of Life;That which stirs up the greatest pother,And claims to bear down evry other,Is Pride, which seems to fill more room,More various titles to assume,Than any tenant we can find,Within the chambers of the Passion, doubtless, is the same,Or in the low or titled name;And may be tracd up to the senseOf what is calld Pre-eminence,Whether in those who men command,Or such as drive their Four-in-Ha?id;In busy Maid who plies the broom,Or Dame of Rank in may be found in him who creepsUp chimnies, and those chimnies sweeps ;. ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH 119 Or in his breast who day and night Climbs up Ambitions dizzy height. But tis not here the verse intends To mark the fair and noble ends Of Pride, too little understood, Which is a virtue in the good; That dignifies th exalted state Of those who are both good and great: That, sanctiond by right Reasons law, Keeps the submissive crowd in awe :— No, tis the Pride which makes men mad, And is a vice among the bad; Or, bred in Fashions motley school, Is a known folly in the fool, With vain and idle objects fraught,— That now awakes the moral thought. Thus, if we look around, tis seen That some are proud of being mean: Or, boasting of their various feats, Are even proud of being cheats :— Are not Attornies ever vain, Of cunning, tricking, and chicane ? They re known to have a certain pride, In cheating all the world beside. Some vaunt their mighty power in drinking, As if twere praise to ba
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