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Definition of Emblems
1. emblem [v] - See also: emblem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emblems
Literary usage of Emblems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"emblems, with elegant Figures newly published. Sparkles of Divine Love. ...
An Alphabet of emblems. With neatly executed Woodcuts. ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"THE emblems IN THE LORD'S SUPPER. To all Protestants, eating is believing.
To eat the bread and drink the cup, denotes believing in the great realities ..."
3. History of Spanish literature by George Ticknor, Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 (1849)
"The most successful of these were probably the emblems of Da/a, in 1549, imitated
from the more famous Latin ones of Alciatus; and those of Covarrubias, ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1882)
"THE emblems IN THE LORD'S SUPPER. To all Protestants, eating is believing.
To eat the bread and drink the cup, denotes believing in the great realities ..."
5. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1854)
"The most remarkable emblems, independent of the types of the deities, were the
signs of, 1, Life ; 2, 3, of Goodness ; 4, of Power (or of Purity) ; 5, ..."
6. A Register of National Bibliography: With a Selection of the Chief by William Prideaux Courtney (1905)
"116-48. essay towards a collection of books on proverbs, emblems, at Keir, ...
Andrea Alciati and his books of emblems, a biog. and bibliog. study, ..."
7. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1894)
"CRAFT SYMBOLS AND RELIGIOUS emblems. By STEPHEN D. PEET. ... In treating these
emblems, then, we shall take the very relics which have come down to u' from ..."
8. English Lyric Poetry, 1500-1700 by Frederic Ives Carpenter (1897)
"Cherries kissing as they grow, And inviting men to taste, Apples even ripe below,
Winding gently to the waist: All love's emblems, and all cry, " Ladies, ..."
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