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 182
often attributed.o the deftroyers of mankind Ihis isJie perverfion of Fame.—An excefs in court-ing ( i64 )ing her Favours is alfo an abufe too frequent.—But thefe arc no arguments againft theolorious emulation in the minds of the good toexcel in wifdom and virtue : where thefe arcnot the ends… … E M B L E M XLII. O PRESSION. FPv O Al airy heights the ravnous bird.^ furvey, With matchleis r.viftnefs daiting on her prey,The helplefs, ftruggling victim ftrives in vainFrom fuch a foe its freedom to regain,Proudly fecure. (he Ikims the fkies along.And haftens home to feed her hungry young ;But…
Emblems
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Symbola diuina & humana pontificvm, imperatorvm, regvm : accessit breuis & facilis isagoge Iac. Typotii : ex mvsaeo Octavii de Strada civis Romani : tomus primus[-tertius] (1601)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-diuinahumanapont00typo-248-301.webp)
