Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth (1868)
Holmes, William · London : William Tegg · leaf 210
RELIGIOUS ALLEGORIES. 191 … Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch and be sober.I Thes. v. 6. THE WINTRY ATMOSPHERE. The icy mountains here lift up on highTheir barren peaks, towards the arctic sky;Terrific regions, where grim Winter reigns,And binds the whirlwind in his frosty chains.All life has fled,…
Emblems · Christian art and symbolism
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![An illustration from Viridarium hieroglyphico-morale : in quo virtutes et vitia, atque mores huius aeui secundum tres ordines hierarchicos, ecclesiasticum, politicum, oeconomicum, per definitiones, distributiones, causas, adfectiones, adiuncta, effecta &c. piè, prudenter, dextrè ac variè explicantur, & non tantum dictis, & exemplis historiarum veterum ac recentium, ex sacris scripturis, sanctis patribus, seu Dd. ecclesiae, poetis, philosophis, historicis cum Christianorum tum gentilium, sed etiam artificiosissimis eiconibus hieroglyphicis illustrantur : opusculum novum ac rarum, cuius vsum atq[ue] vtilitatem praefixa praefatio docebit (1619)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-viridariumhierog00orae-147-70.webp)
