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... Vix ea nostra воок I. Majora Canamus INVOCATION . Dum Coelum afpicio Solum defpicio . While to high Hearn our ferrent Thoughts arise , The Soul all Earthly Treasures can despise . BOOK THE FIRST . THE INVOCATION . ROUSE thee ,
... Vix ea nostra воок I. Majora Canamus INVOCATION . Dum Coelum afpicio Solum defpicio . While to high Hearn our ferrent Thoughts arise , The Soul all Earthly Treasures can despise . BOOK THE FIRST . THE INVOCATION . ROUSE thee ,
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... treasure , And cheated man with thy false weights and measure , Proclaiming bad for good , and gilding death with pleasure ! The world's a crafty strumpet , most affecting And closely following those that most reject her ; But seeming ...
... treasure , And cheated man with thy false weights and measure , Proclaiming bad for good , and gilding death with pleasure ! The world's a crafty strumpet , most affecting And closely following those that most reject her ; But seeming ...
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... treasure flows and flees away as fast ; That ever hast , and hast , yet hast not what thou hast . Go choose a substance , fool , that will remain Within the limits of thy leaking measure ; Or else go seek an urn that will retain The ...
... treasure flows and flees away as fast ; That ever hast , and hast , yet hast not what thou hast . Go choose a substance , fool , that will remain Within the limits of thy leaking measure ; Or else go seek an urn that will retain The ...
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... free ? No , they were smok'd and slav'd as well as we : What's sweet - lipp'd Honour's blast but smoke ? What's treasure But very smoke ? And what more smoke than plea- sure ? 66 EMBLEMS . BOOK II . Alas ! they're all BOOK II.-EMBLEM IV ...
... free ? No , they were smok'd and slav'd as well as we : What's sweet - lipp'd Honour's blast but smoke ? What's treasure But very smoke ? And what more smoke than plea- sure ? 66 EMBLEMS . BOOK II . Alas ! they're all BOOK II.-EMBLEM IV ...
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... treasure's gone , the merchant's broke ; A slave to silver's but a slave to smoke . Behold the glory - vying child of Fame , That from deep wounds sucks forth an honour'd name ; That thinks no purchase worth the style of good , But what ...
... treasure's gone , the merchant's broke ; A slave to silver's but a slave to smoke . Behold the glory - vying child of Fame , That from deep wounds sucks forth an honour'd name ; That thinks no purchase worth the style of good , But what ...
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art thou ASTOR NY LIBRARY August beams behold Bern blessed blood BOOK II BOOK II.-EMBLEM breast breath canst thou CANTICLES Chriscross Christ crown Cupid darkness dart dear world death deceitful delight desire doth E'en earth EMBLEM 11 EMBLEMS Epig eternal ev'ry fair faith false fear fire flames flesh flow'rs fond fool FRANCIS QUARLES glorious glory goeth grace grief hath heart Heav'n heav'nly honour labour let thy LIBRARY BOOK LIBRARY BOOK IV light Look LORD lust man's may'st mercy mirth ne'er night NY LIBRARY BOOK pains peace Pfalm pleasure pow'r pris'ner Psal PSALM Quarles ravish'd repentance rest sacred scorn shade sins smile Snares in thy Soliloq sorrows soul Sweet Phosphor tears theorbo there's thine things thou art thou canst thou hast thou ly'st thy face thy hand thy soul thyself torments treasure wanton wealth what's wilt wings wound
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Page 107 - What well-advised ear regards What earth can say ? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay : Thy cunning can but pack the cards, Thou canst not play : Thy game at weakest, still thou vy'st ; If seen, and then revy'd, deny'st : Thou art not what thou seem'st ; false world, thou ly'st.
Page 31 - Woe unto you that are full ! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Page 104 - Thy babbling tongue tells golden tales Of endless treasure ; Thy bounty offers easy sales Of lasting pleasure ; Thou ask'st the conscience what she ails, And swear'st to ease her : There's none can want where thou supply'st: There 's none can give where thy deny'st.
Page 31 - Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Page 134 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 99 - I LOVE, and have some cause to love, the earth; She is my Maker's creature, therefore good; She is my mother, for she gave me birth; She is my tender nurse — she gives me food. But...
Page 4 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 114 - I call heaven and earth to record against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that thou and thy seed may live.
Page 92 - Her wasted talent, and, unrais'd, aspire In this sad moulting time of her desire ? Not first belov'd, have I the power to love; I cannot stir, but as thou please to move me, Nor can my heart return thee love, until thou love me.