Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . Fol. XXXI, recto. Few of these Cuts exhibit a greater spirit of drollery than the ensuing;which, in the original, has a back ground, and a bird flying over theleft arm of the figure. It is affixed to the article of Predestination, andhas the following verses above: VOL. III. B s 210 MISCELLANEOUS. [Basilf De prpdestinatione .Qui precium poscit quod non meruisse videtur :Atq; super fragilem ponit sua brachia cannara :Illius/ in dorso cancroru/ semita stabit :Deuolet inq; suum rictum/ satis assa
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . Fol. XXXI, recto. Few of these Cuts exhibit a greater spirit of drollery than the ensuing;which, in the original, has a back ground, and a bird flying over theleft arm of the figure. It is affixed to the article of Predestination, andhas the following verses above: VOL. III. B s 210 MISCELLANEOUS. [Basilf De prpdestinatione .Qui precium poscit quod non meruisse videtur :Atq; super fragilem ponit sua brachia cannara :Illius/ in dorso cancroru/ semita stabit :Deuolet inq; suum rictum/ satis assa Fol. Lxv, recto. A Serenade Scene, at fol. lxx, is not a little curious and clever; and theItinerant Beggars, at fol. lxxi, have equal spirit and effect. At , we have a striking cut of Death surprising an improvidentCharacter; and at folio xcvi, an insolent Character is made to seize ourSaviour by the beard—with a marginal moral, that the punishment ofheaven is severe, although tardy. Blasphemy, in piercing the crucifiedSaviour, is represented in the ensuing leaf; but we hasten to lessunpleasant subjects, and introduce one, which, for delicacy, truth,and force, is equalled by very few in the volume. The prefix to it isthus: arch; 14970 BRANT. 211 De vana spe futurp in externis est qui successor haberiSperat: %l alterius de funere gaudet acerbo .At sppe ante illu mortem prpgustat . 8c is quemAd turaulum deferre putat: sepelitur ab illo .
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