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
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.
children eye red
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
dark college land
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.
happiness inner-peace constant
Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend...
brother father reading
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
children use example
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
life mind important
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
laughter laughing praying
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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.