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8 Quotes for 'Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld' in the Database.
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Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes
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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.
Topic: Death
Source: The Death of the Virtuous
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It is to hope, though hope were lost.
Topic: Hope
Source: Come here, Fond Youth
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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
Topic: Man
Source: The Invitation
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Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Topic: Midnight
Source: A Summer Evening's Meditation (l. 48)
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Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport,
And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,--
Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen
Slumbering the festal hours away,
While Youth disports in that enchanting scene;
Till on some fated day
Thou with a tiger-spring dost leap upon thy prey,
And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.
Topic: Remorse
Source: Ode to Remorse (st. 6)
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And when 'midst fallen London they survey
The stone where Alexander's ashes lay,
Shall own with humble pride the lesson just
By Time's slow finger written in the dust.
Topic: Ruin
Source: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance
sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
Topic: Sadness
Source: Hymns in Prose (XIII)
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Fair Venus shines
Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam
Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood
Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.
Topic: Twilight
Source: A Summer Evening's Meditation (l. 10)
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