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Francis Quarles : Emblems

'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and that sentence begins admirably, although its feet are of clay.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Francis Quarles : Argalus and Parthenia

Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I doubted not that you would agree with me in thinking very highly of quaint old Quarles. you shall see his Argalus & Parthenia when we meet, it is more ridiculous than his Emblems, but often very fine & never tame.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

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