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
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.
love heart two
The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
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.
art stars children
Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,—thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present store—No line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.
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.
men solitude society
Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
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. . . .
men sky soul
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
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.
time aging easy
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...
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 ...