Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 362
ed the Latinmotto with WE MUST—. The joke is older thanHogarth. The Horologiographia Optica by oneMorgan, published in 1652, ends with it. On achurch dial is this verse : — lifes but a shadow, mans but DUST;THIS DIALL SAYS DY ALL WE MUST. There is a very quaint variant of this motto on afarm-house… … Sun-dial at Ivy Lodge, Germantown, Pennsylvania; Seat ofHorace Jay Smith, Esq. Sun-dial Mottoes 271 Diall. SINCE MY NAME AND THY NATURE SOE AGREE,THINK ON THYSELFWHEN THOU LOOKEST UPON ME. Another beautiful dial, with musing figure point-ing to the dial-face, is at Ivy Lodge, the home ofHorace J.…
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