Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations (1862)
Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660, Farlie, Robert, Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Pigot, Richard · London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 201
as with his bluftring gale,Or fome mifchance my lovely light doth quale:Elfe I and Light my life, would never part,Before to afhes fates did me convert. Nature commands us to maintaine our breathAnd being, fhunning life-deftroying death.Yet man from Atropus oft takes the knife,And cuts his fatall… … TWO SIR POSITIVES CANT MEET WITHOUT A SKIRMISH. 3ETWIXT TWA STOOLS THE DOUP FAS DOUN. Nemo potest Thetidem simul et Galatean amare. J
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