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Anna Seward Quotes

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Anna Seward
Being Happy, Sigh, Let Me
Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.73

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

Anna Seward
Fate, Blessing, Soul
Anna SEWARD (1799). “Original Sonnets, on various subjects; and Odes paraphrased from Horace, by Anna Seward. Second edition”, p.14

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

Anna Seward
Girl, Education, Drawing

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Anna Seward
Fading, Tides, Cold
Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.82

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.

Anna Seward
Acquisition, Attention, Language
Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13

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

Anna Seward
Records, Failing, Tenderness

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