Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
- Anna Seward
Success, Would, Were, Indeed
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
- Anna Seward
Tide, Shall, Stern, Dissolve
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
- Anna Seward
Against, Johnson, Entering, Quarters
Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
- Anna Seward
Happy, I Am, Me, Distinguished
If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
- Anna Seward
Music, Learn, Would, Educate
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
- Anna Seward
Will, Tenderness, Though, Failings
Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
- Anna Seward
Fate, Suffer, Which, Wrongs
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
Education, Study, Which, Acquisition
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