"Ye Mothers! train your Daughter's infant Mind; / To practise, when Adult, what's here injoin'd; / With early Care, Seeds of Compliance sow, / As you first shape the Twig, the Tree will grow; / Good Education elevates our Souls, / Corrects the Passions, Appetites controls; / Refines our Nature, and improves our Sense, / Each Excellence, and Virtue spring from thence; / So to the shapeless Block, the Sculptor's Art, / By gradual Strokes, can Form, and Grace, impart."
— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Owen
Date
1759
Metaphor
"Ye Mothers! train your Daughter's infant Mind; / To practise, when Adult, what's here injoin'd; / With early Care, Seeds of Compliance sow, / As you first shape the Twig, the Tree will grow; / Good Education elevates our Souls, / Corrects the Passions, Appetites controls; / Refines our Nature, and improves our Sense, / Each Excellence, and Virtue spring from thence; / So to the shapeless Block, the Sculptor's Art, / By gradual Strokes, can Form, and Grace, impart."
Metaphor in Context
Ye Mothers! train your Daughter's infant Mind;
To practise, when Adult, what's here injoin'd;
With early Care, Seeds of Compliance sow,
As you first shape the Twig, the Tree will grow;
Good Education elevates our Souls,
Corrects the Passions, Appetites controls;
Refines our Nature, and improves our Sense,
Each Excellence, and Virtue spring from thence;
So to the shapeless Block, the Sculptor's Art,
By gradual Strokes, can Form, and Grace, impart;
To give it Life, his busy Fingers strive,
Nor ends his Labor, till it breathes alive;
Bright Education forms the moral Man,
And executes the wise Creator's Plan; [...]
(p. 51)
To practise, when Adult, what's here injoin'd;
With early Care, Seeds of Compliance sow,
As you first shape the Twig, the Tree will grow;
Good Education elevates our Souls,
Corrects the Passions, Appetites controls;
Refines our Nature, and improves our Sense,
Each Excellence, and Virtue spring from thence;
So to the shapeless Block, the Sculptor's Art,
By gradual Strokes, can Form, and Grace, impart;
To give it Life, his busy Fingers strive,
Nor ends his Labor, till it breathes alive;
Bright Education forms the moral Man,
And executes the wise Creator's Plan; [...]
(p. 51)
Provenance
ECCO
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1775).
Text from Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq. (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq. (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
10/28/2013
