- Full Text
- 1)
Beauty soon grows familiar to the eye
Virtue alone has charms that never die
2)
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds
And tho a late a sure reward succeeds
- Listed on Page Number
- 334
- Sampler Worked By
- Anna Greenleaf Johnson
- Date of Sampler
- 1787
- Place Sampler Made
- Newburyport, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 56
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- 1) “Epistle XIV. Sophronia to Ophelia, on Hearing that she had Lost her Beauty by the Small-pox,” Epistles for Ladies. By the Authors of The Female Spectator, ed. Eliza Fowler Haywood, 3rd edition, London: T. Gardner, 1756. Vol. 1, p. 57. 2) Congreve, William. The Mourning Bride A Tragedy, 2nd ed., London: Jacob Tonson, 1697, p. 66.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Johnson, Catherine. 1789, Newburyport, MA, p. 56;
Creaton, Lucretia, 1790, Charleston, SC, p. 40;
Parker, Betsey. 1799, n.p., p. 67;
Douglas, Angelina. July 1, 1823, p. 149.
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_epistles-for-ladies-by-_haywood-eliza-fowler_1756_1
This is a collection of fictional letters meant to impart a moral lesson Ito the reader. This section is inset as if it were an earlier quotation, preceeded by the words, “as the poet truly says,” but no more attribution is given. Other quotations within this book are credited to their authors, so we’re left wondering if this quote is also attributed to the author. A search for an earlier source yielded no result. Further, the author of each letter is not credited except in the title as “the authors of The Female Spectator,” whose author was the prolific English writer Eliza Haywood.
2) https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-mourning-bride-a-tr_congreve-william_1697