Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine : for the improvement and pastime of youth : displaying 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 a young nobleman (1793)
Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788 · London : Printed by J. Chapman for E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's Church-yard · leaf 136
, the greaterwill be the reward of thofe who perfevere. But above all things, it is necelTary forus to fly from Temptation. There are nonewho fbnd fo flrong, but that it is poffiblethey may fall; how unwife then is it for usto approach to the brink of a precipice,merely to try whether he can bear… … E M B L E ^I XXXVI. Of theFanity of Pleafures, BEHOLD the beanty of yon Damafk Rofc,Joy of the eye, in gaudy pride it blow^;The fetting fun fhall fee its bloom decay,^nd all its boaited beauties fade away:The envious Thorns its fragrant leaves furrounc^Proteft the bloffbm, and th unwary…
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