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 194
,and to get fafe at lail into the harbour ofpeace and tranquility. That man is happieft who having little tofear, and much to hope, and can fet a juH:bound to his v/ifhes, and thereby never re-duce himfelf, by afpiring at grandeur, to tliecontrary fituation. Content dwells notI 4 with ( 1:6 ) with… … E rvl B L E M XLV.Of Heavenly Love. TKE tender Pelican with ceafelefs care?,Protecls her young ones and their foodprepares,From her own breall the nourifhment proceeds.With which, as with her blood, her brocd {he feeds :Emblem of Heavns fupernal graces known.And parents love to deareit children…
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