Aikin) Barbauld Quotes (12 Quotes)

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. (Anna Letitia

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky. (Anna Letitia

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse. (Anna Letitia

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays. (Anna Letitia

Life weve been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps twill cost a sigh, a tear Then steal away, give little warning Choose thine own time Say not Good-night but in some brighter clime Bid me Good-morning. (Anna Letitia

So fades a summer cloud away So sinks the gale when storms are over So gently shuts the eye of day So dies a wave along the shore. (Anna Letitia

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined. (Anna Letitia

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd of his love. (Anna Letitia

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexanders ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Times slow finger written in the dust. (Anna Letitia

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. (Anna Letitia

It is to hope, though hope were lost. (Anna Letitia

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun.... (Anna Letitia