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
time aging easy
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...
shining radiance venus
Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.
thinking play age
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.
education son ideas
You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .
time pride dust
And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.
faith consequence
But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
friendship death sweet
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
son simple higher-ground
You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.
travel sorry eggs
Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...
imbibing prejudice absurd
it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.
pride train-of-thought track
Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.
knowledge knowing giving
many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.
strong character compassion
if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.
law giving england
Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.