Jane Taylor citations

Jane Taylor était poétesse britannique.

✵ 23. septembre 1783 – 13. avril 1824
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Jane Taylor: Citations en anglais

“Oh that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.”

Jane Taylor

For a Very Little Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Bartlett's notes this work to be written by Ann Taylor.

“Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.”

Jane Taylor

Ann Taylor, "My Mother," from Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804)
Misattributed

“Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!”

Jane Taylor

"Essays in Rhyme" from On Morals and Manners, Prejudice, Essay i. Stanza 45, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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