A Choice of EmblemesGeorg Olms Verlag, 1971 - 440 pages |
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Page vii
... death , 1603 or 4 , I think . In the testament , if I recol- lect rightly , he gives his library of Latin books to his nephew the See Emb . p . 88 , son of his brother Brooke Whitney , ' on condition that he become xlv . and xlvii . a ...
... death , 1603 or 4 , I think . In the testament , if I recol- lect rightly , he gives his library of Latin books to his nephew the See Emb . p . 88 , son of his brother Brooke Whitney , ' on condition that he become xlv . and xlvii . a ...
Page xiv
... Death . The last page is almost en- tirely occupied by a coat of arms , and the work thus concludes : “ En is volmaeckt ter goude in hollant bi me gheraert leeu préter ter goude optē vierden dach van april Ent íaer MCCCCLXXXI . , " i.e. ...
... Death . The last page is almost en- tirely occupied by a coat of arms , and the work thus concludes : “ En is volmaeckt ter goude in hollant bi me gheraert leeu préter ter goude optē vierden dach van april Ent íaer MCCCCLXXXI . , " i.e. ...
Page xvi
... death in 1533. These " skilled artisans " left pupils , followers and worthy compeers , who did not allow their " glorious mystery " to retrograde ; and the touch , the turn , the soul - inspired power of their hand , survive in many a ...
... death in 1533. These " skilled artisans " left pupils , followers and worthy compeers , who did not allow their " glorious mystery " to retrograde ; and the touch , the turn , the soul - inspired power of their hand , survive in many a ...
Page xvii
... death , the folio edition of his works issued in 1616 gives a woodcut emblematical of each month in the year , and thus renders the Shepherd's Calendar a near approach to the emblem - books of a former century . Fr. Ed . à Rouen , We ...
... death , the folio edition of his works issued in 1616 gives a woodcut emblematical of each month in the year , and thus renders the Shepherd's Calendar a near approach to the emblem - books of a former century . Fr. Ed . à Rouen , We ...
Page xix
... death also from our woundes do proceed . " SECTION III . ENGLISH EMBLEM - BOOKS , A.D. 1586-1686 . p . 39 . ROM what sources Emblem - books were first intro- duced into English literature has just been shown , and there is no absolute ...
... death also from our woundes do proceed . " SECTION III . ENGLISH EMBLEM - BOOKS , A.D. 1586-1686 . p . 39 . ROM what sources Emblem - books were first intro- duced into English literature has just been shown , and there is no absolute ...
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.