Emblems, divine and moral. New ed., carefully rev. and corr., with recommendatory prefaces by Augustus Toplady, and John Ryland (1839)
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, Toplady, Augustus, 1740-1778, Ryland, John Collett, 1723-1792, Wilson, Robert · London J. Bennet · leaf 242
purchase by this stay;What loss sustainst thou by so small delay.To whom ten thousand years are but a day ? My following eye can hardly make a shiftTo count my winged hours; they fly so swift,They scarce deserve the bounteous name of gift. The secret wheels of hurrying Time to giveSo short a… … KMBLF.M 13. ,Jolj. lO.iO. ffr/)inA iiif fill-. .v/Kiiu- f/irti ttt\ /vr/iif /h-i ,t(/lfii- f/ij/.\ftt/i.v/i-it t/mt vti/ilvnif iifi ff f)itxf/i . BOOK III. EMBLEMS. 17 And what s a life ? The flourishing arrayOf the proud summer-meadow, which to-dayWears her green plush, and is, to-morrow, hay. And…
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