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 169
Mars, as on Minerva. Theevents of war are, at beft, always uncer-tain ; but, next to providence^ prudence alonecan be expefted to give any affurance ofthem. Difputes of a private kind partakeof the feme nature ; and he who thinks tocarry a point againfl his adverfary bymere dint of force, will… … EMBLEM XLVIIL Of Dijipation, -15EHOLD the man, who, as old fables tell,^ By Dianswralh, for his intrulion fell:At noon retired from Phcebus fultry belms,He viewd her bathing in the limpid flreams:For this th unhappy Hunter flie difgracd,And fpreading antlers on his forehead placM ;Him, as a Stag,…
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