Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Mouse's Petition
The Mouse's Petition (1773)
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Mouse's Petition
The Mouse's Petition (1773)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Mouse's Petition
The Mouse's Petition (1773)
“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)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld buch Hymns in Prose for Children
Hymns in Prose for Children, Hymn 10 (1781).
Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Mouse's Petition
The Mouse's Petition (1773)
“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)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Mouse's Petition
The Mouse's Petition (1773)
“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.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 433.
Anna Letitia Barbauld, Life, in Lucy Aikin, ed., The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825), p. 261.
Poems (1773), "To a Lady, with some painted Flowers", p. 96.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Mouse's Petition
The Mouse's Petition (1773)
“I read his awful name, emblazon'd high
With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.”
Poems (1773), "An Address to the Deity", p. 128.
“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)
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)
