Anna Seward Quotes

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.

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 of my countrymen.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.