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
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 giving events
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.
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.
heart light dies
If my heart were not light, I would die.
moving believe forever
I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.
women courageous danger
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
morning pride shining
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it.
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!
heart add willing
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.