De Montfort (1798), Act I, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.
Joanna Baillie: 10 Zitate0 Gefällt mir
Joanna Baillie: Zitate auf Englisch
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.”
Act V, scene 3.
Count Basil (1798)
“Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.”
Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on her Birthday, line 126; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 902.
“A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.”
De Montfort (1798), Act III, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.
The Phantom, song (1836); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 201.
Song, Oh, Swiftly glides the Bonnie Boat; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 74.
“The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
Like infant charity.”
Orra (1812), Act III, scene 1, "The Chough and Crow"; in Plays on the Passions, Volume III.
