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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1773
"Smooth like her verse her passions learned to move, / And her whole soul was harmony and love."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained, / And easy, like a native monarch, reigned."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
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."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Such were the working thoughts which swelled the breast / Of generous BOSWEL."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
Toil and danger "feed and ripen minds" (not "meats and drinks" or "balmy airs, and vernal suns and showers")
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
The mind may be "a never dying flame"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1774
"Some have imagined that we are induced to acquiesce with greater patience in our own lot, by beholding pictures of life tinged with deeper horrors, and loaded with more excruciating calamities; as, to a person suddenly emerging out of a dark room, the faintest glimmering of twilight assumes a lu...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1774
Romances "ventilate the mind by sudden gusts of passion; and prevent the stagnation of thought, by a fresh infusion of dissimilar ideas"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1774
"The writer of Romance has even an advantage over those who endeavour to amuse by the play of fancy; who from the fortuitous collision of dissimilar ideas produce the scintillations of wit; or by the vivid glow of poetical imagery delight the imagination with colours of ideal radiance"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1774
"The attraction of the magnet is only exerted upon similar particles; and to taste the beauties of Homer it is requisite to partake his fire: but every one can relish the author who represents common life, because every one can refer to the originals from whence his ideas were taken"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
