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 85
adlice till we reach the Tomb ;In Sin advancing, as our Age proceeds.Still heaping Wrath on our rebeliious Heads,O wretched Man ! how durlt thou thus prefumeAffront the Judge who mud alTign thy Doom ?Should dreadful Vengeance lour on his Brow,What couldil thou do toward the threatend Blow ?With the… … When Goi> is pleasM to hide his Face,The Soul, impatient, fighs and prays.She may to Favour be rcftord,And feel the Comforts of her Lordc [ ^^3 ] E M \] L E M VII. Li^bt Dkine dif^eh Spiritual Darkncfs, WH£N Clouds of Doubts and Fears arife,,j(lnd oveHpread the Sou],To Hehvn he :ift5 his pious…
Emblems -- Early works to 1800 · Emblem books, English -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century · Emblem books -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century
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![An illustration from Omnia D. And. Alciati emblemata : ad quae singula, praeter concinnas acutásque inscriptiones, lepidas & expressas imagines, ac caetera omnia, quae prioribus nostris editionibus cúm ad eorum distinctionem, tum ad ornatum & correctionem adhibita continebantur, : nunc primùm perelegantia persubtiliáq[ue] adiecta sunt epimuthia, quibus emblematum amplitudo quaecunq[ue] in iis dubia sunt aut obscura, tanquam perspicuis illustrantur (1566)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-omniadandalciat00alci-82-72.webp)
