Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Children

Eye

Red

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Children

Example

Use

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

College

Dark

Land

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

Absurd

Imbibing

Prejudice

Life! we’ve been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps ’twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not “Good-night,” but in some brighter clime, Bid me “Good-morning.”

Friends

Good Night

Life

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.

Giving

Knowing

Knowledge

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.

Eggs

Sorry

Travel

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd – of his love.

Love

Maids

Shepherds

Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’

Death

Good Night

Morning

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o’er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

Eye

Summer

Time

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Able

Absurd

Aging

Brother

Children

Class

College

Compassion

Dark

Death

Different

Easy

Education

Eggs

Example

Eye

Father

Friends

Genius

Gentleman

Giving

Good Night

Higher Ground

Ideas

Imbibing

Important

Knowing

Knowledge

Land

Laughing

Laughter

Life

Love

Maids

Men

Midnight

Mind

Moon Night

Morning

Noon

Peru

Praying

Prejudice

Reading

Rebuilding

Red

Shepherds

Should Have

Simple

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Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

Life! we’ve been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps ’twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not “Good-night,” but in some brighter clime, Bid me “Good-morning.”

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.

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.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd – of his love.

Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o’er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

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