The maid who led by wisdom’s guiding hand, Seek’s virtue’s temple and her law reveres: She, She alone in honour’s dome shall stand, Crownd with Rewards and rais’d above her peers Recording annals shall preserve her name, And give her virtue to Immortal fame.

Full Text: The maid who led by wisdom’s guiding hand, Seek’s virtue’s temple and her law reveres: She, She alone in honour’s dome shall stand, Crownd with Rewards and rais’d above her peers Recording annals shall preserve her name, And give her virtue to Immortal fame.
Listed on Page Number: 334
Sampler Worked By: Harriet Bradbury
Date of Sampler: 1786
Place Sampler Made: å
Sampler Listed on Page: 33
Author/Publication/Country/Date: Johnson, Samuel and Robert Dodsley . The Preceptor: Containing A General Course of Education…2nd ed. London: R. Dodsley, 1754, v. 2, frontispiece.
Notes: Also stitched by: Greenleaf, Elizabeth. 1788, Haverhill, MA, p. 49; Parker, Sally. 1796, n.p., p. 67. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Preceptor/z_4SAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP8&printsec=frontcover This verse appears under a frontispiece engraving by at least this 2nd edition of The Preceptor, which was originally published in 1748. It is unattributed, although Samuel Johnson and Robert Dodsley are credited as editors of this volume, authorship of individual pieces are not always attributed.