- Full Text
- Death at a distance we but slightly fear
He brings his terrors as he draws more near
Through poverty pain slavry we drudge on
The worst of beings better please than none
No price to dear to purchase life & breath
The heaviest burdens easier borne than death
- Listed on Page Number
- 283
- Sampler Worked By
- Katy Rayner
- Date of Sampler
- 1793
- Place Sampler Made
- Newburyport, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 71
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Dillworth, Thomas. A New guide to the English Tongue: In Five Parts. London, Henry Kent, 13th edition, 1751. p.133
- Notes
- First published in 1740, but the 1751 edition, the 13th, is the earliest found online.
Link to 1751 edition:
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-new-guide-to-the-engli_dilworth-thomas_1751/page/132/mode/2up