Anna Letitia Barbauld
Poet
1743-06-20 – 1825-03-09
Anna Laetitia Barbauld was an English poet, essayist, and children's author active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She was a prominent literary figure associated with dissenting intellectual circles.
Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
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