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 34
ndfhipwhich is not founded upon a virtuous bafis,it is only a connexion of inter*!!, which theiirll puff of adverfe fortune will blow av/ay,and fcatter to the winds of heaven. But when you have really gotten a truefriend, ** Grapple him to your foul with hooks. of fieel Abide by him alike in… … E M R L E M V. Of Purity. SO nicely formd by natures hidden laws,.Lo ! from the touch the confcicus plantwithdraws.Emblem of purity ; which fiill retiresFrom the rude glowing of unhallowd fires ;Yet ftill more weak the frequent touch it tries.Droops in approaching, and by preilure dies. Shun evils…
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