Joanna Baillie Quotes

Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for works including Plays on the Passions and Fugitive Verses . Her writing exhibits an interest in moral philosophy and the Gothic. She was critically acclaimed during her lifetime, and she associated with important literary contemporaries, including Anna Barbauld, Lucy Aikin, and Walter Scott, while living in Hampstead. Baillie died at the age of 88.

✵ 11. September 1762 – 23. February 1851
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“But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.”

Act V, scene 3.
Count Basil (1798)

“A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.”

De Montfort (1798), Act III, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.

“Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.”

Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on her Birthday, line 126; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 902.

Joanna Baillie Quotes

“Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat,
Just parted from the shore,
And to the fisher's chorus-note,
Soft moves the dipping oar!”

Song, Oh, Swiftly glides the Bonnie Boat; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 74.

“The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
Like infant charity.”

Orra (1812), Act III, scene 1, "The Chough and Crow"; in Plays on the Passions, Volume III.

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