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Title: Death's doings: consisting of numerous original compositions, in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers; principally intended as illustrations of thirty copperplates
Year: 1828 (1820s)
Authors: Dagley, Richard, d. 1841
Subjects: Death
Publisher: Boston : C. Ewer
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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efulness when ardentlyemployed. The details of his operations, and theartifices used by the afflicted parties to disguisetheir malady, threw a fitful gleam over the counte-nance of the grim tyrant, that gave a momentaryemotion to his ghastly features; but whether the ex-pression was surprise, or triumphant malignity, wasnot easily to be determined. A pause of some length ensued, after which Carewas permitted to touch, by way of approbation, theicy hand of Death, and to receive a regular commis-sion enlisting him into the various forces employedin the destruction of the human species. Hencehe carries on his operation in courts, in camps, inthe palace of the monarch, and in the cottage of thevillager. But it is in civilized life, and amid scenes 376 deaths doings. of leisure and retirement (where his presence isleast suspected) that his power is mostly felt: in-deed, a laugh is no unfrequent disguise that hisvictims put on, and his place of concealment is oftena bed of roses. Hatchment.
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THE LAWYER. 377 DEATH AND THE LAWYER. A DIALOGUE. DEATH. Good morrow. Sir! my call, I trust, isAgreeable to Law and Justice ;—You see, Ive got a cause in hand.So brought the brief— LAWYER. I understand—But, truly, when at first you enterd.To raise my eyes I scarcely venturd;So very like a ghost you lookd,I almost fancied I was bookd. DEATH. And so I think you are, my bold one, Bookd for a passage to the Old One.— (Aside. Ah, Sir! so wondrous thin Im grown. That urchins cry out Daddy Bone ; 378 deaths doings. While full-grown wags indulge their whim.And, jeering, call me Gaffer Grim ! LAWYER. The varlets ! do they ?—thats a libel. As sure as truth is in the Bible; Scan. mag. at least, and defamation. To any gent, of reputation. My dear Sir, let me bring an action Against the rogues—and satisfaction. In damages, youll get, depend ont;— Nay, that alone maynt be the end ont; For, if I can, a bitter pill Ill give them in a Chancery bill; And when I once have got them there. S

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