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Quotation from Essays by Francis Bacon
“Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible”
Essays, Essay II, Of Death (1625 text, modernized spelling (Project Gutenberg #575))
Bacon argues that the trappings of the deathbed frighten more than death itself.
Citation: "Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible" — Francis Bacon, Essays, Essay II, Of Death (1625 text, modernized spelling (Project Gutenberg #575)). (id essays-bacon-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of Francis Bacon., Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain.
