- Full Text
- One Weeks Extremity May Teach Us More
Than Long Prosperity Had Done Be Fore
Death Is Forgotten In Our easy State
But Troubles Mind Us In Our Final Fate
The Doing Ill Affects Us not with Fears
But Suffring Ill Brings Sorrow Woe And tears
- Listed on Page Number
- 284
- Sampler Worked By
- Susan Lehman
- Date of Sampler
- 1799
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 60
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Dilworth, Thomas. A new guide to the English tongue: in five parts…13th ed. London: Henry Kent, 1751. pg. 137
- Notes
- Entirety of the poem “The Good of Evils.”
Although first published in 1740, the earliest online example I have found is the 13th edition from 1751: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-new-guide-to-the-engli_dilworth-thomas_1751/mode/2up?q=%22extremity+may+teach+us+more%22