A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by A. L. Barbauld

4 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Come calm content serene and sweet, O gently guide my pilgrim feet To find thy hermit cell.— filed under Contentment
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.— filed under Death
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."— filed under Life
With Thee in shady solitudes I walk, With Thee in busy, crowded cities talk ; In every creature own Thy forming power, In each event Thy providence adore.— filed under Nearness To God And Christ
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