Date: 1733
"[S]prightly Wit, that all admire," may be "an unlicens'd lawless Fire"
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Date: 1773
"Sighs are incense from a heart sincere"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"While others,--consecrate to higher aims, / Whose hallowed bosoms glow with purer flames, / Love in their heart, persuasion in their tongue,-- / With words of peace shall charm the listening throng, / Draw the dread veil that wraps the' eternal throne, / And launch our souls into the bright unkn...
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Date: 1773
The soul contains "An embryo of God, a spark of fire divine / Which must burn on for ages."
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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
The mind may be "a never dying flame"
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Date: 1788
"His breast, where nobler passions burn, / In honest poverty, would spurn / That wealth, Oppression can bestow, / And scorn to wound a fetter'd foe."
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Date: 1788
"Or, if where savage habit steels / The vulgar mind, one bosom feels / The sacred claim of helpless woe-- / If Pity in that soil can grow; / Pity! whose tender impulse darts / With keenest force on nobler hearts; / As flames that purest essence boast, / Rise highest when they tremble most."
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Date: 1788
"On Eloquence, prevailing art! / Whose force can chain the list'ning heart; / The throb of Sympathy inspire, / And kindle every great desire; / With magic energy controul / And reign the sov'reign of the soul!"
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Date: 1791
"[I]mpetuous Passion's flame" may be blown to rage
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