De Montfort (1798), Act I, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.
Famous Joanna Baillie Quotes
“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.
Ethwald (1802), Part II, Act V, scene 3.
“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
The Phantom, song (1836); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 201.
Act III, scene 1, line 151.
Count Basil (1798)
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.