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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 217

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out the fwift flight ofTime^ and fhews us how our days dratv onto aconclulion, even while we arc revellingin the fummer and the pride of life. The Dial is a kind of filent monitor,which, by informing us how the hours fleetaway, feems to exort us to make a properufe of them, and not to wafte thofe… … EMBLEM LXIV. Of the Frailty of Suhlunary Things, rpHE lofty pie that rearM its head To high,■■■ Afpiiing (lill, and pointing to the Iky,The boaft of ages, but their boaft is vain;OVturnd at laft, and levelM with the plain.So falls the pride of life: fb worlds mud fall.And one long, laft oblivion,…

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