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Title: Floral emblems
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Phillips, Henry, 1775-1838
Subjects: Flower language Flowers in literature Emblems
Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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les vertus, et le genie, Dans le Muguet, je vois un fat,Dans le Serpolet, la franchise ;La Tulipe, avec son eclat,MoflPre Torgueil et la sottise ;Le Lis presente la grandeur ;LAmaranthe, IindifFerence;Rose blanche, dans sa fraicheur.Est Iimage de Tinnocence. Le Pavot nous peint le pouvoirQue, sur nos sens, a maint ouvrage ;Dans le Narcisse, je crois voirUn sot epris de son visage; XVI PREFACE. Dans le Souci, je reconnaisLepoux dune femme infidele;Dans une Rose, les attraits.Quon admire dans une belle. Le Myrte, cheri des amours.Nous represente leur puissance ;Et le Lierre, amoureux toujours,Donne des lemons de Constance.Si je marrete au fond dun bois,Avec Iris sur la fougere.La Fougere mofFre a-la-foisMon lit, ma bouteille etmonverre. Piiis-je rencontrer des Lauriers,Sans marreter et reconnaitreCes jeunes et vaillans guerriersQue Fheureuse France a vu naitre !Si je vois IOlivier fleurir,Sur-tout apres un long orage,Je dis : la paix va revenir.La paix est )e prix du courage. P. Ledouj
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BOTANICi GARDE INTRODUCTION With emblematick skill and mystick order.Thou shewdst where towrs on battlements should rise.Where gates should open, or where walls should compass. Prior. That hierog-l\phics tormed the earliest kindof ^viitten language cannot be disputed, sincereason pronounces pictorial emblems the mostnatural mode by which a communication ofideas could be effected pre^~ious to the inven-tion of a more regular system. The monuments of the greatest antiquityconfirm this opinion, and the most ancientrocks of Egypt make knowm the early con-quests of these people which are expressed INTRODUCTION. by the representation of vegetables that areforeign to their cUmate. Brown says in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica, that of all men that suffered from the confu-sion of Babel, the Egyptians found the bestevasion ; for, though words were confounded,they invented a language of things, and spakeunto each other by common notions in nature,whereby they discoursed in silence, and wereintuitivel

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