Anna Letitia Barbauld
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Anna Laetitia Barbauldwas a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 June 1743
education ideas able
we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
eye compassion giving
The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.
summer time eye
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
spring years firsts
The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
life good-night morning
Life! we've 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."
hope lost-hope lost
It is to hope, though hope were lost.
should-have class honor
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.
moon-night noon darkness-of-night
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
country spring flower
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring, and light without any cloud. The tree of life groweth in the midst thereof; rivers of pleasures are there, and flowers that never fade. Myriads of happy spirits are there, and surround the throne of God with a perpetual hymn. The angels with their golden harps sing praises continually, and the cherubim fly on wings of fire! This country is Heaven...
good-night morning prayer
Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
mind vivid awakening
The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.
love maids shepherds
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
love rebuilding peru
We can only love what we know.
strength genius eccentric
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.