Date: 1773
"With respect to all these, the best direction that can be given is to fix on some periods or epochas, which, by being often mentioned and thought of, explained and referred to, will at last be so deeply engraven on the memory, that they will be ready to present themselves whenever you call for t...
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Date: 1773
"But, when you come to the Grecian and Roman stories, I expect to find you deeply interested and highly entertained; and, of consequence, eager to treasure up in your memory those heroic actions and exalted characters by which a young mind is naturally so much animated and impressed."
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Date: 1773
"In those dark ages, you will find no single character so interesting as that of Mahomet; that bold impostor, who extended his usurped dominion equally over the minds and properties of men, and propagated a new religion, whilst he founded a new empire, over a large portion of the globe."
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Date: 1773
"Nor blush, my fair, to own you copy these; / Your best, your sweetest empire is--to please."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Smooth like her verse her passions learned to move, / And her whole soul was harmony and love."
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Date: 1773
"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained, / And easy, like a native monarch, reigned."
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Date: 1773
"Now deep retired in Frome's enchanting vale, / She pours her tuneful sorrows on the gale; / Without one fond reserve the world disclaims, / And gives up all her soul to heavenly flames."
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Date: 1773
"Such were the working thoughts which swelled the breast / Of generous BOSWEL."
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Date: 1773
Toil and danger "feed and ripen minds" (not "meats and drinks" or "balmy airs, and vernal suns and showers")
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Date: 1773
The mind may be "a never dying flame"
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