Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ... / by James Roberts Brown.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ... / by James Roberts Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    alchymic art last quoted tells us, ‘‘will restore you to the health and soundness you have lost.” With this result I shall not have laboured in vain, and you will all admit I have tried my hardest to obey the command of our ex-Oddship, Bro. Quaritch, “To discover the Philosopher’s Stone,” and present it to you accordingly as an Odd Volume. Now, in my “mind’s eye,” I see a scep- tical, unpoetical Brother, who can evolve nothing from his inner consciousness but the conception of hard solid facts : he says with Hamlet,—“ Man delights not me, nor women either.” His mind has been intent on the absolute discovery of the Philoso- pher’s Stone j and he is almost angry with me that I have not discovered it. He smiles at my story of the Sicilian labourer; and, as to the Vases of “ Padway in Italy,” he be- lieves them to be mythical and unreal; and