"Ye Mothers! train your Daughter's infant Mind; / To practise, when Adult, what's here injoin'd; / With early Care, Seeds of Compliance sow, / As you first shape the Twig, the Tree will grow; / Good Education elevates our Souls, / Corrects the Passions, Appetites controls; / Refines our Nature, and improves our Sense, / Each Excellence, and Virtue spring from thence; / So to the shapeless Block, the Sculptor's Art, / By gradual Strokes, can Form, and Grace, impart."
Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing
3 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1775).<br>
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Text from <u>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.</u> (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114353522&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;