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 362
delivered from this dull dark holeOf dungeon flesh ? O shall I, shall I neverBe ransomd, but remain a slave for ever ?It is the lot of man but once to die;But, ere that death, how many deaths have I!What human madness makes the world afraidTo entertain Heavns joys, because conveydBy th hand of… … EM.B LElyE 7. PliiJin. IU0.5.. till/t/t fhf Ti.-/tf.i- vflu-dnrJfnu^t diiilf . 1 BOOK V, EMBLEMS. 89 Life is a bubble, blown with whining breaths, Filld with the torments of a thousand deaths ; Which, being prickd by death (while death deprives One life), presents the soul a thousand lives. O…
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