Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes about Children

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Children, Example, Use

Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.312

Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present storeNo line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Art, Stars, Children

Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.230