Hannah More

thumb|Hannah More in 1821 thumb|Blue Plaque on the wall of Keepers Cottage, Brislington Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. Quotes The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes! Daniel A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care! Daniel, Pt. VI   ...   There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul. David and Goliath, Pt. I To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint! Sensibility Since trifles make the sum of human things,And half our misery from our foibles springs. Sensibility In men this blunder still you find,—All think their little set mankind. Florio, Pt. I Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes. Florio, Pt. I That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it. Essays on Various Subjects Quotes about Hannah More Hannah More was one of the last of the group of learned ladies who had known Johnson, though Madame d'Arblay survived her for some years. Her writings have the old-fashioned flavour of the eighteenth century; while they now represent the teaching of the evangelical school, which looked up to Newton and Cecil, and of which William Wilberforce and his friends were the recognised political and social leaders. Though now out of fashion, they show not only high moral and religious purpose, but strong sense, as well as considerable intellectual vivacity. If their author showed a little self-complacency, the wonder is that her strong sense kept her from being spoilt by the uniform flattery poured upon her by her contemporaries. Her services to education at a time of general indifference deserve the highest praise, though her decided desire to keep the poor in their place is now out of fashion. In private life she seems to have been thoroughly amiable, kind to children, and as playful as her conscience would allow. Leslie Stephen, 'More, Hannah', Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XXXVIII. Milman—More, ed. Sidney Lee (1894), p. 419 External links Category:Essayists from England Category:Playwrights from England Category:Poets from England Category:Children's authors Category:Abolitionists Category:Educators from England Category:Philanthropists from England Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:Conservatives from the United Kingdom Category:1745 births Category:1833 deaths Category:People from Bristol Category:Women authors from England