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Image title:	The Invocation.
Source:	Quarles, Francis: “Emblems Divine and Moral” (1866)
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Keywords:	poetry, emblems, people, bare feet, greyscale
Status:	out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

	The illustration for “The Invocation” at the start of the first book shows a person lying on the ground resting against a tree, barefoot, with a lute on the ground nearby, and an heraldic shield hung over another tree, together with a laurel wreath. The sun’s rays shine down. From the person’s mouth come the words, in Latin, Majora Canamus, which is, Let us sing of great things. On the right are the Latin words Vix ea nostra, an allusion to Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Nam genus, et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, Vix ea nostra voco which is, Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. Rouse thee, my soul; and drain thee from the dregs Of vulgar thoughts; screw up the heighten’d pegs [Of] thy sublime Theorbo four notes high’r, And high’r yet, that so the shrill-mouth’d quire [choir] Of swift-wing’d seraphims may come and join, And make the concert more than half divine.” (p. 1)
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Image title:

The Invocation.

Source:

Quarles, Francis: “Emblems Divine and Moral” (1866)

Place shown:

none

Keywords:

poetry, emblems, people, bare feet, greyscale

Status:

out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested
Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

The illustration for “The Invocation” at the start of the first book shows a person lying on the ground resting against a tree, barefoot, with a lute on the ground nearby, and an heraldic shield hung over another tree, together with a laurel wreath. The sun’s rays shine down. From the person’s mouth come the words, in Latin, Majora Canamus, which is, Let us sing of great things. On the right are the Latin words Vix ea nostra, an allusion to Ovid’s Metamorphoses:

Nam genus, et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi,
Vix ea nostra voco

which is, Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Rouse thee, my soul; and drain thee from the dregs
Of vulgar thoughts; screw up the heighten’d pegs
[Of] thy sublime Theorbo four notes high’r,
And high’r yet, that so the shrill-mouth’d quire [choir]
Of swift-wing’d seraphims may come and join,
And make the concert more than half divine.” (p. 1)

Dimensions:

50 x 60mm (2.0 x 2.4 inches)

Filename:

001-The-Invocation-q75-425x500.jpg

Blog image:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/23/001-The-Invocation-q75-425x500.jpg

Blog link:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/23/pages/001-The-Invocation/

Scanner dpi:

2400

Unmarked:

You can get a version of this image without the watermark at the lower right corner by requesting it in using the comment link below. The images are watermarked to help people find where they came from if they get reposted to blogs or other sites. Images under 1200 pixels on a side are still free, although I will ask for a donation :-)

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