"Refine you Spirit, with assiduous Care, / From ev'ry vicious Weed, your Virtue clear; / Virtue, and Vice, grow in the human Mind, / Like Corn, and Weeds, together closely join'd; / Extirpate Self-conceit, the worst of Weeds, / That checks the Growth of intellectual Seeds; / Each rebel Passion, to Subjection, bring, / That Virtue's Crop may cultivated spring."
— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Owen
Date
1759
Metaphor
"Refine you Spirit, with assiduous Care, / From ev'ry vicious Weed, your Virtue clear; / Virtue, and Vice, grow in the human Mind, / Like Corn, and Weeds, together closely join'd; / Extirpate Self-conceit, the worst of Weeds, / That checks the Growth of intellectual Seeds; / Each rebel Passion, to Subjection, bring, / That Virtue's Crop may cultivated spring."
Metaphor in Context
Refine you Spirit, with assiduous Care,
From ev'ry vicious Weed, your Virtue clear;
Virtue, and Vice, grow in the human Mind,
Like Corn, and Weeds, together closely join'd;
Extirpate Self-conceit, the worst of Weeds,
That checks the Growth of intellectual Seeds;
Each rebel Passion, to Subjection, bring,
That Virtue's Crop may cultivated spring.
Let frugal Care, no Avarice produce,
Adore not Gold, yet know its proper Use.
[...]
(pp. 80-1)
From ev'ry vicious Weed, your Virtue clear;
Virtue, and Vice, grow in the human Mind,
Like Corn, and Weeds, together closely join'd;
Extirpate Self-conceit, the worst of Weeds,
That checks the Growth of intellectual Seeds;
Each rebel Passion, to Subjection, bring,
That Virtue's Crop may cultivated spring.
Let frugal Care, no Avarice produce,
Adore not Gold, yet know its proper Use.
[...]
(pp. 80-1)
Categories
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
