Joanna Baillie
Joanna Baillie
Joanna Bailliewas a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, she hosted a literary society in her cottage at Hampstead. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
mean men laughing
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
time wings bears
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.
mind want bears
The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.
eye ambition mountain
I am as one Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height, And having gained what to the upcast eye The summit's point appear'd, astonished sees Its cloudy top, majestic and enlarged, Towering aloft, as distant as before.
men giving events
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.
eye mind half
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.
men young old-man
It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .
women home garden
Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.
prayer blessing men
A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.
pride men self
Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
hem earth speech
Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!
law care
Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.
war rights iron
War is honorable In those who do their native rights maintain; In those whose swords an iron barrier are Between the lawless spoiler and the weak; But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade For added power or gain, sordid and despicable As meanest office of the worldly churl.
cases
The plainest case in many words entangling.