Date: 1799
"Nor seldom Indolence these lawns among / Fixes her turf-built seat; and wears the garb / Of deep philosophy, and museful sits, / In dreamy twilight of the vacant mind, / Soothed by the whispering shade; for soothing soft / The shades; and vistas lengthening into air, / With moonbeam rainbows ti...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1800
"Others, unemployed, were strolling to and fro, and testified to their vacancy of thought and care by humming or whistling a tune."
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Date: 1800
"My mind gradually expanded itself, as it were, for the reception of new ideas."
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Date: 1800
"The image of Achsa filled my fancy, but it was the harbinger of nothing but humiliation and sorrow."
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