A Choice of EmblemesGeorg Olms Verlag, 1971 - 440 pages |
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... died in 1552 rector of All Hallows , Lombard - street , London . The memoir of him in the Penny Cyclopædia gives the titles of nine of his works , and shows Penny Cycl . him to have been a voluminous writer : it declares also that " he ...
... died in 1552 rector of All Hallows , Lombard - street , London . The memoir of him in the Penny Cyclopædia gives the titles of nine of his works , and shows Penny Cycl . him to have been a voluminous writer : it declares also that " he ...
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... died in 1527 ; Germany , of Albert Durer , down to 1528 ; and Holland , of Lucas Jacobs , better known as Lucas van Ley- den , until his death in 1533. These " skilled artisans " left pupils , followers and worthy compeers , who did not ...
... died in 1527 ; Germany , of Albert Durer , down to 1528 ; and Holland , of Lucas Jacobs , better known as Lucas van Ley- den , until his death in 1533. These " skilled artisans " left pupils , followers and worthy compeers , who did not ...
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... died in 1619. He entitles his work , The Worthy Tract of Paulus Fovius , containing a Discourse of Rare Inventions ... called Imprese , with a Preface : " by Samuel Daniell , London 1585 , 8vo . But for the want of devices , or en ...
... died in 1619. He entitles his work , The Worthy Tract of Paulus Fovius , containing a Discourse of Rare Inventions ... called Imprese , with a Preface : " by Samuel Daniell , London 1585 , 8vo . But for the want of devices , or en ...
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... died in 1621. He was a copious writer , according to the Bodleian catalogue . His emblem - book , printed at Cam- bridge by John Legate , probably in 1598 , is dedicated to the Athena Canta- brigienses . earl of Essex : it is a 4to ...
... died in 1621. He was a copious writer , according to the Bodleian catalogue . His emblem - book , printed at Cam- bridge by John Legate , probably in 1598 , is dedicated to the Athena Canta- brigienses . earl of Essex : it is a 4to ...
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... died in 1660 in his eighty- Penny Cycl . third year , and who to this day is spoken of familiarly yet affec- tionately in Holland , as " Vader Catz " - our country may be said to have marched at least with equal steps by the side of ...
... died in 1660 in his eighty- Penny Cycl . third year , and who to this day is spoken of familiarly yet affec- tionately in Holland , as " Vader Catz " - our country may be said to have marched at least with equal steps by the side of ...
Contents
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INDEX to the Mottoes with Translations and some Pro | lxxv |
POSTSCRIPT to the Introductory Dissertation lxxxilxxxviii | lxxxi |
Titlepage Frontispiece Dedication c 120 | c |
ESSAYS LITERARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL | 231 |
EXPLANATORY NOTES LITERARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL | |
Addenda 401412 | |
EMBLEMA FINALE 434 | |
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Page xxii - A ROT AMONGST THE BISHOPS ; or a Terrible Tempest in the Sea, of Canterbury, set forth in lively emblems, to please the judicious Reader.
Page lxxiii - Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things, that no gross ear can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th
Page 340 - VIII., was so noted for his meek spirit, deep learning, prudence and piety, that the then Parliament and Convocation both, chose, enjoined, and trusted him to be the man to make a Catechism for public use, such a one as should stand as a rule for faith and manners to their posterity. And the good old man, though he was very learned, yet knowing that God leads us not to heaven by many nor by hard questions, like an honest Angler, made that good, plain, unperplexed Catechism which is printed with our...
Page 306 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent royal of their emperor : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate...
Page 306 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting' endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page lv - WHITNEY (Geffrey). — A Choice of Emblemes, and other Devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized, And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney.