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 174
of it himfelf, therefore his fate is un-lamented, and in the day of his trouble thereihall be none to afTid him. E Jvl B L E M … EMBLEM XL. B Of Vain Glory.E H O L D that filly bird, how proudly Of the bright colours of his gaudy train !Evn to a proverb grown his idle prideBy outward iliew alone in worth fupplyd.For no harmonious found, no chearful note,Muft ever iilue from that hideous throat.Nor of the hundred eyes that…
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