Anna Laetitia Barbauld idézet

Anna Laetitia Barbauld [ejtsd: bárbó] angol költő és író.

✵ 20. június 1743 – 9. március 1825
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Idézetek angolul

“This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”

A Summer's Evening Meditation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

Anna Laetitia Barbauld könyv Hymns in Prose for Children

Hymns in Prose for Children, Hymn 10 (1781).

“It is to hope, though hope were lost.”

Come here, Fond Youth. Compare: "Who against hope believed in hope", Romans iv, 18; "Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive", James Montgomery, The World before the Flood.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Come calm content serene and sweet,
O gently guide my pilgrim feet
To find thy hermit cell.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 161.

“With Thee in shady solitudes I walk,
With Thee in busy, crowded cities talk;
In every creature own Thy forming power,
In each event Thy providence adore.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 433.

“Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.”

The Invitation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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.”

The Death of the Virtuous. Compare: "The daisie, or els the eye of the day", Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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