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 of my countrymen.

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

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

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

When Sorrows fling,Or slow Disease, thus, o'er some beauteous FormTheir shadowy languors, Form, devoutly dearAs thine to me, Honora, with more warmAnd anxious gaze the eyes of Love sincereBend on the charms, dim in their tintless snow,Than when with health's vermilion hues they glow."

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

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.

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