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Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
Age: 81 †
Born: 1743
Born: June 20
Died: 1825
Died: March 9
Essayist
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Leicestershire
England
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Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
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Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not Good-night, but in some brighter clime, Bid me Good-morning.
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The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
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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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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.
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Englishmen are said to love their laws - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.
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