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Emblems, divine and moral (1839)

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, Toplady, Augustus Montague, 1740-1778, Ryland, John, 1732-1792, Wilson, Robert, A. M · London : Printed at the Milton Press, Chandos Street, Strand, by John Nichols ; John Bennet, no. 4, Three Tun Passage, 25 & 26, Newgate Street · leaf 195

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s arrayd;Alike they flourish, and alike they fade :The beast in sense exceeds him ; and in growth,The three-agd oak doth thrice exceed them both.Why lookst thou then so big, thou little spanOf earth ? what art thou more in being man ?\,-\ but my great Creator did inspireMy chosen earth with that… … Jol) . lO . () . /<> nil /n/urJ.ird f/i,t/ J itii.v //kuL /rc/ii T/z/i.\ ( r in l/iv llrtil/i rmstinw //ir ifiu/i lutiix . BOOK III. EMBLEMS. 117 He gave me art to lengthen out my spanOf life, and made me all in being man.I,* but that passion has committed treasonAgainst the sacred person of…

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