Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle (1772)
Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Ovenden, fl. 1772, Riley, George · London : Printed for George Riley, in Curzon Street, May Fair · leaf 114
ey have loft their re-ward, and their memory is a bye-word topoilerity. But you v/ho would attain to the end ofyour labours, follow not after their example.Be you virtuous, and to your ^virtue join pru-dence^ be prudent alfo, and to your piudenceySixv pgrje-jerance \ fo ihall you not,fall intothe… … E M B L E i\I XXV.Of the Danger of Temptatiox. TH E filly Fifh, while playing in thebrock,Hath gcrgd and fwallowd the de(lru6live hook;In vain he flounces on the quivring hair,Drawn panting forth to breathe the upper air.Caught bv his folly—in the glittring bait.He meets his ruin, and fubmits to…
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