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
heart
He was not all a father's heart could wish;/ But oh, he was my son! my only son.
frozen portion
He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl
women courageous danger
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
summer women grief
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.
affection stills
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
dog men tyrants
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
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.
eye mind half
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.
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!