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Emblems, divine and moral (1845)

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, ed, Tegg, Thomas, bookseller · London : Printed [by Bradbury and Evans] for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside · leaf 198

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e time of our life is nothing but apassage to death. S. Greg. Lib. ix. Cap. Ixiv. in Job.As moderate afflictions bring tears, so immoderatetake away tears ; insomuch that sorrow becometh nosorrow, which swallowing up the mind of the afflicted,taketh away the sense of the affliction. Epig. 13.Fearst… … DEUT. XXXII. 2a. O that men were wise, that they understood this, thatthey would consider their latter end ! FLESH. 8PIRIT. FL ^HAT means my sisters eye so oft to pass Through the long entry of that optic glass ]Tell me ; what secret virtue doth inviteThy wrinkled eye to such unknown delight ? 182…

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