"Strive to extirpate Pride, that Hell-sprung Root, / Whence Anger, Malice, Strife, and Madness shoot; / If, in your Mind, that pois'nous Weed should grow, / In vain, the Seeds of Discipline, I sow; / Where that Weed grows, so barren in the Soil, / It is not worth my Culture, and my Toil."
— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Owen
Date
1759
Metaphor
"Strive to extirpate Pride, that Hell-sprung Root, / Whence Anger, Malice, Strife, and Madness shoot; / If, in your Mind, that pois'nous Weed should grow, / In vain, the Seeds of Discipline, I sow; / Where that Weed grows, so barren in the Soil, / It is not worth my Culture, and my Toil."
Metaphor in Context
[...] Learn first, a Conquest, o'er yourselves, to gain,
That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign.
Strive to extirpate Pride, that Hell-sprung Root,
Whence Anger, Malice, Strife, and Madness shoot;
If, in your Mind, that pois'nous Weed should grow,
In vain, the Seeds of Discipline, I sow;
Where that Weed grows, so barren in the Soil,
It is not worth my Culture, and my Toil;
Pride will not learn, in vain to Pride I preach
The Art to please, Who can the Haughty teach? [...]
(p. 57)
That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign.
Strive to extirpate Pride, that Hell-sprung Root,
Whence Anger, Malice, Strife, and Madness shoot;
If, in your Mind, that pois'nous Weed should grow,
In vain, the Seeds of Discipline, I sow;
Where that Weed grows, so barren in the Soil,
It is not worth my Culture, and my Toil;
Pride will not learn, in vain to Pride I preach
The Art to please, Who can the Haughty teach? [...]
(p. 57)
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
