. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial at Bramhall, Cheshire. 276 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday Another stanza has also been used : â NOR DO I BEG THIS SLENDER NICHE, TO WHILEMY TIME AWAY, OR SAFELY TO BEGUILE MY THOUGHTS WITH JOY THEREs NOTHING WORTH A SMILE. TIME FLIES. LINES RISE AND SHADOWS FALLLET IT PASS BYLOVE REIGNS FOREVER OVER ALL. These lines are on a sun-dial owned by Lord RonaldGower ; they are the Englishrendering of the Latin verseswhich are on the dial atOld Place, Lindfield,
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial at Bramhall, Cheshire. 276 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday Another stanza has also been used : â NOR DO I BEG THIS SLENDER NICHE, TO WHILEMY TIME AWAY, OR SAFELY TO BEGUILE MY THOUGHTS WITH JOY THEREs NOTHING WORTH A SMILE. TIME FLIES. LINES RISE AND SHADOWS FALLLET IT PASS BYLOVE REIGNS FOREVER OVER ALL. These lines are on a sun-dial owned by Lord RonaldGower ; they are the Englishrendering of the Latin verseswhich are on the dial atOld Place, Lindfield, Sussex,see page facing 226. Far more beautiful are thelines by Dr. Henry VanDyke given on page 223. Mr. Evans gives me agroup of sun-dial mottoeswhich are not published inMrs. Gattys book, nor inits latest edition by I cannot give themall in full. Amour fourAmour, on an ivory porta-ble quadrant dial, French,in Mr. Evanss Dial in Rose Garden atBroughton Castle. AS THE SUN RUNSSO DEATH COMES, Sun-dial Mottoes 277 on a horizontal dial made by Adam Stear, 1660,belonging now to Rev. G. W. W. Minnes, TheCliff, Weston, Southampton. Curriculum meum per-ficiam donee advenerint dominus â i will run myCOURSE UNTIL THE LORD SHALL COME, ou a Germandial of gilt-brass resembling an astrolabe, sixteenthcentury. Justum et aquumâjust and fair, 1717,and lueet omnibus â it shines fully, on a largeFrench portable dial in Mr. Evanss sibi soli vivere sed et aliis proficire vult â itwishes to live not for itself alone, but alsoTO BE of use to OTHERS, on a brass portable dial,probablv Spanish, by F. Hieronimus de Arresse, 1598. And on a German portable dial of brass, 1612,with a nocturnal dial at the back, are these Germanlegends : â ** Der Zeiger sol gerucket seinWol auf der 50?i?ien grad allei?iDas instrumejtt solt ha?igen IanZeigt der schat dir die dages stund an J* On the back are these lines : â
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