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The Amaranth

Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte]
Harte, Walter (1709-1774)

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CHRIST's PARABLE OF THE SOWER.
  
INTRODUCTION.
  
PARABLE.
  
INTERPRETATION.
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THE ASCETIC,
  
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THE MEDITATION OF THOMAS A KEMPIS.
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CONTENTMENT, INDUSTRY, AND ACQUIESCENCE under the Divine Will:
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THE VISION OF DEATH.
  
INTRODUCTION.
  
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MORAL.
  
THE COURTIER AND PRINCE:
  
THE ENCHANTED REGION:
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EULOGIUS:
  
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MACARIUS:
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BOETIUS:
  
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Religious Melancholy, AN EMBLEMATICAL ELEGY.
  
MEDITATIONS ON CHRIST's Death and Passion.

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'Tis Vanity to wish for length of days;
The art of living well is wise men's praise.
If death, not length of life, engag'd our view,
Life would be happier, and death happier too .
Nature foreshows our death: 'Tis God's decree;
The King, the insect dies; and so must We.
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What's natural, and common to us all,
What's necessary;—none should evil call.
Check thy fond love of life, and human pride;
Shall man repine at death, when Christ has dy'd?
 

This and the following passages marked with a note of reference are extracted almost verbatim from Kempis's Book of the Imitation of Christ. Lib. I, C. 1, 2. See also Lib. I, C. 19. 23.

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