Anna Seward Quotes
- A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions…
- Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
- Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
- If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
- Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
- Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
- Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
- To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!