Date: 1820
"How will thy soul, cloven to its depth with terror, / Gape like a hell within!"
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Date: 1820
"Yet am I king over myself, and rule / The torturing and conflicting throngs within, / As Jove rules you when Hell grows mutinous."
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Date: 1820
"On a poet's lips I slept / Dreaming like a love-adept / In the sound his breathing kept; / Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, / But feeds on the aƫreal kisses / Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses."
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Date: 1821
"Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow / Back to the burning fountain whence it came."
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Date: 1821
And "if the seal is set, / Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind, / Break it not thou!"
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Date: 1825
"What powers lie folded in thy curious frame,-- / Senses from objects locked, and mind from thought! "
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"One only passion, strong and unconfined, / Disturbed the balance of her even mind"
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Date: 1831
"By the mind we understand that within us which feels and thinks, the seat of sensation and reason"
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Date: 1831
In poetry we are "privileged occasionally to cast away the slough and exuviæ of the body from incumbering and dishonouring us, even as Ulysses passed over his threshold, stripped of the rags that had obscured him, while Minerva enlarged his frame, and gave loftiness to his stature, a...
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Date: 1831
Teaching in a crowded school is "like the undertaking, related by Livy, of Accius Navius, the augur, to cut a whetstone with a razor ... the sharpness of human faculties, is so blunted and destroyed"
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