Fanny Kemble
Fanny Kemble
Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemblewas a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
worst servant discomfort
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
masters bounds irresponsible
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
rivers rowing nothing-new
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
successful government order
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
blessing names naked
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.
tree carols rings
Carols of gladness ring from every tree.
islands sugar mills
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
fall numbers weakness
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
truth loses
They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
blessed believe heart
Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.
mother memorable wife
Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.
simplicity elements breeding
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
children eye ears
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
soul abhorrent immortality
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.