Francis Quarles' Emblems and : Hieroglyphics of the life of man, modernized : in four books (1773)
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear’s Head, in Pater-Noster-Row · leaf 157
foar away. To Blifs above the Skies. The Moral. Come fpread thy V^ings, my Soul, and take a Flight ?Leave this dark Earth, and fpring av/ay to Light,Nothing is here, but Mifery and Show.Raife tl.en thy Thoughts to Contemplation high,Thy chief Concerns are lodgd above the Sky.Theres Gop, atten^led… … The Soul tranfported, views her Home,The Heaven, where flie hopes to come;In Contemplation fhe is loll:,Of Father, Son and Holy Ghofl. [ 155 ]E M B L E M XIV. The Glory cf Heaven. WOULD Heaven open to our View,And all its glorious Wonders lliew ;Our feeb e Frame could not iupportTh Effulgence of…
Emblems -- Early works to 1800 · Emblem books, English -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century · Emblem books -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century
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