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Анна Брэдстрит — первая американская поэтесса.

✵ 20. Март 1612 – 16. Сентябрь 1672
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Анна Брэдстрит цитата: „Если бы не было зимы, весна не казалась бы нам такой прекрасной; если бы не было нищеты, богатство не было бы так желанно.“

„Если бы не было зимы, весна не казалась бы нам такой прекрасной; если бы не было нищеты, богатство не было бы так желанно.“

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Анна Брэдстрит: Цитаты на английском языке

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”

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Anne Bradstreet

12.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Источник: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.”

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Anne Bradstreet

“Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,
Fly back and sing amidst this choir.”

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Anne Bradstreet

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659.

“If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.”

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To my Dear and Loving Husband.

“If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;
And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,
Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.”

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The Author to Her Book.

“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”

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Anne Bradstreet

3.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)

“A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

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Contemplations.

“Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.”

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43.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)

“The principal might yield a greater sum,
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;”

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To Her Father with Some Verses.

“Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,
Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.”

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Of the Four Ages of Man.

“"Sister," quoth Flesh, "what liv'st thou on
Nothing but Meditation?”

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The Flesh and the Spirit.

“What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Loue him to Eternity”

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By Night when Others Soundly Slept.