If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassi… - Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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Anna Letitia Barbauld (June 20, 1743 – March 9, 1825) was an English poet and miscellaneous writer.

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Alternative Names: Anna Laetitia Aiken • Anna Letitia Barbauld • Anna Lætitia Barbauld • Ann Letitia Barbauld • Anna (Laetitia) Barbauld

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It is to hope, tho' hope were lost.

Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew,
In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew.[…]
Gay without toil, and lovely without art,
They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.

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.

If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect. - Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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