Identifier: floralemblems00phil (find matches)
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
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wells refulgent on the day. ThompsojK The etj^nology of the name of this monthis derived from its being the seventh fromMarch. September may be considered the festivalmonth of jolly Bacchus. For clustring grapes are his peculiar care. We have therefore given as our emblem of 48 FLORAL EMBLEMS. this month, a cluster of purple grapes, sur-rounded by a wreath of hops. The author of the Complete Gentleman de-scribes September with a merry and cheer-ful countenance, in a purple robe, and awreath of white and purple grapes upon hishead : in his left hand a handful of millet oats,and panicle, carrying a cornucopia of ripepeaches, pears, pomegranates, and other fruitsof his season, in his right hand the sign Libra His purple robe sheweth how he reignethlike a king above other months, aboundingwith plenty of things necessary for mans life. OCTOBER. * Ye swains, now hasten to the hazel bank. ** In close array.Fit for the thickets and the tangling shrub,Ye virgins come. *^ * * # ^ TloTal imilems
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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 49 * * * * the clustering nuts for you The lover finds amid the secret shade ; And where they burnish on the topmost bouo-h. With active vigour crushes down the tree ; Or shakes them ripe, from the resigning husk, A glossy shower. Hierog-lyphically we emblazon this monthby a wreath of purple, crimson and whitechina asters, surrounding clusters of ripehazel nuts. In the reign of Charles the First, Octoberwas represented, In a garment of yellow andcarnation, upon his head a garland of oakleaves and acorns, in his right hand the signScorpio, in his left a basket of servises, med-lars, and chestnuts, and other fruits that ripenlate in the year; his robe the colour of theleaves and flowers decaying.—Peacham. Domitian, the last of the twelve Caesars,commanded that this month should be calledafter himself, Domitianus; but he was no E 50 FLORAL EMBLEMS. sooner assassinated than the senate, in orderto obhterate the name of so detestable a ty-rant, decreed that it should be ca

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