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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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INTRODUCTION.

The man, that's truly read in virtue's laws,
Improves from censure, and distrusts applause.
Firm in his hope, he yields not to despair ;
The cube reverst is still erect and square .
ELIOT, to whom kind nature did impart
The coolest head, and yet the warmest heart:
Blest in thy nuptials, blest in thy retreat,
Privately good, and amiably great;
Accept with candor these spontaneous lays,
And grant me pardon, for I ask not praise.—
In proof the Muse true oracles recites,
Hear what Boetius to his Consort writes.
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Mark well the Man, and Heav'n thy labour bless;—
In all be like him, but unhappiness!
Thus He aspir'd on meditation's wings,
And to the best of Consorts thus he sings:
 

“The fortitude of a just man consists in contemning the flatteries of prosperity, and overcoming the fears of poverty.”. Sti. Gregor. Moral. L. VIII.

“Compositus, semperq; suus.” Stat. Sylvæ. L. II.

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