Joanna Baillie Quotes


The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.


Citations

Baillie, Joanna. A Series of Plays: In which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind. Vol. 2, T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802, p. 325. (In "Ethwald", Part II, Act V, Scene I).

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Joanna Baillie
Joanna Baillie
  • Born: September 11, 1762
  • Died: February 23, 1851
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Tragedy Writer

Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as Plays on the Passions (three volumes, 1798–1812) and Fugitive Verses (1840). She shows her interest in moral philosophy and the Gothic. She was critically acclaimed in her lifetime, and while living in Hampstead, associated with literary contemporaries such as Anna Barbauld, Lucy Aikin, and Walter Scott. She died at the age of 88.