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 167
s,Objefts, imperfeftly diilinguifhd, fee-.Short is the time betwixt his Birth and Death,And may To-morrow draw his fhorteH Breath ;Flutters a while upon the bufy Scene,For Pleafure mofi his Appetite is keen.The Curtain drawn, the Man no more appears.The darkened Stage a gloomy Afpefl wears.The… … ^^/k^^^. ?:Sf<f*.--^^ -^ >\^t^^: LtTvi^fe*-
Emblems -- Early works to 1800 · Emblem books, English -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century · Emblem books -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century
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