Francis Quarles

And Francis Quarles, whose Emblemes appeared in 1635 and in innumerable editions thereafter, stated that “An emblem is but a silent parable” — an unsatisfactory definition because it both oversimplifies and confuses.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

Francis Quarles, 1592-1644: he was a Royalist, but belongs to the literary school of Withers.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

_John Quarles_, Son to _Francis Quarles_, Esq; may be said to be born a

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

_Francis Quarles_, son to _James Quarles_, Esq; was born at _Stewards_ at the Parish of _Rumford_, in the County of _Essex_, and was bred up in the University of _Cambridge_, where he became intimately acquainted with Mr. _Edward Benlowes_, and Mr. _Phineas Fletcher_, that Divine

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

We may give a further word of mention to the voluminous Francis Quarles, who in his own day and long after enjoyed enormous popularity, especially among members of the Church of England and especially for his 'Emblems,' a book of a sort common in Europe for a century before his time, in which fantastic woodcuts, like Vaughan's 'Silex Scintillans,' were illustrated with short poems of religious emotion, chiefly dominated by fear.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

As the new sedative gains in esteem, we find Francis Quarles, in his

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

Among the less known writings of Francis Quarles, author of the once famous _Emblems_, is a volume, now become very scarce, entitled _The

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

From Emblemes by Francis Quarles, 1635, Book III. viii.

Notes: Divine Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

Francis Quarles. (1592–1644) (continued) 2284This house is to be let for life or years;

Quotations 1919

My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth among the lilies by Francis Quarles.

My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth among the lilies 1917