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Joanna Baillie Biography

Joanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for works including Plays on the Passions (three volumes, 1798-1812) and Fugitive Verses (1840). Her writing exhibits an interest in moral philosophy and the Gothic. She was critically acclaimed during her lifetime, and she associated with important literary contemporaries, including Anna Barbauld, Lucy Aikin, and Walter Scott, while living in Hampstead. Baillie died at the age of 88.

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A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Add, Heart, Heel, High Heels, Willing

I am as one Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height, And having gained what to the upcast eye The summit's point appear'd, astonished sees Its cloudy top, majestic and enlarged, Towering aloft, as distant as before.

Ambition, Enlarged, Eye, Mountain, Point, Sees

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Perhaps, Pride, Thing, Vanity, Vanity And Pride

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

Aspiring, Dark, Looks, Mind, Minds, Restless

The plainest case in many words entangling.

Case, Cases, Entangling, Plainest, Words

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

Come, Darkness, Fate, Gloom, Night

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on! The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Danger, Dream, Gone, Noble, Struggle, Stupid

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

Care, Law, Laws

She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

Alms, Coquette, Hour, Men, Self Esteem, Tho

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Accomplishment, People, Running, Wild, Wish

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

Azure, Dark, Eye, Moon, Plumage, Thy

Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

Favors, Room, Rooms, Small, Soul, Unlikely

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

Bliss, Moment, Moments, Stills

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

Believe, Forever, Glorious, Moving, Press, Vestibule

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

Grief, Sad, Storm, Summer, Violent, Women

There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.

Heart, Mother, Sight, Smiling, Sweet, Youthful

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Company, Fellow, Inclination, Men, Old Man, Young

Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.

Feet, Luckless, Sod, Soul, Thinking, World

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Conjoined, Consequence, Events, Give, Giving, Men

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

Bear, Mind, Shapes, Things, Want

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