Letitia Elizabeth Landon quotes - page 2

The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me. View quote
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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form. View quote
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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. View quote
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present. View quote
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Fame is but a beautiful classic delusion. The inspiration of the poet is like the inspiration of the Delphic oracles: what was once held divine is now confessed the promptings of an evil spirit mocking the votaries of whom it made victims. We firmly believe that the time is fast approaching when no more books will be written. The once writers: will say-"Why should we sacrifice our whole existence to obtain a vain praise, which, after all, never comes sufficiently home to us to be enjoyed? Why should we devote, to this most barren pursuit, industry and talent, which, in any other line, would be certain of that worldly success, which, as we live in the world, is the only success to be de sired?” Even poets must at last learn wisdom. The bitterness and the hollowness of praise will be perceived; and then who will be at the trouble of writing a book? Again we repeat, the time is fast approaching when no more books will be written. View quote
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A London day requires to be well aired before it is ventured into. View quote
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Oh this is not that sweet love Own companion to the dove; But a wild and wandering thing, Varying as the lights that fling Radiance o'er his peacock's wing. I do weep, that Love should be Ever linked with Vanity. View quote
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This mountain-ash, whose flower-fill'd boughs Spread like a cloud at noon - Whose shade is as a haunted place For the sweet airs of June : 'Twas but a little shrub when first I wreathed amid thy hair Its berries, like the coral crown That the sea-maidens wear. View quote
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Life is but the spirit's prison, Where its wings are furl'd, Stretching to their flight in vain, - Seeking that eternal home Which is in a world to come. View quote
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The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, The pear tree's rosier hue, As beautiful as woman's blush, As evanescent too. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
It is a night of summer,-and the sea Sleeps, like a child, in mute tranquillity. Soft o'er the deep-blue wave the moonlight breaks; Gleaming, from out the white clouds of its zone. View quote
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[From Lee, a dramatist]: Ah! the poet hath no true hope, who doth not place it in the many, and in the feeling of the common multitude. View quote
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Tis not for Spring to think on all The sear and waste of Autumn's fall:. View quote
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The voyage appeared short, for I had nothing to anticipate. View quote
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Deception is always an evil, but in youth - youth, whose very faults should be open-hearted and impetuous, it lays the foundation of the worst possible faults of character. View quote
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A word - a name - Conjures the past before me, till it grows More actual than the present : that - I see But with the common eyes of daily life, Imperfect and impatient; but the past Out of imagination works its truth, And grows distinct with poetry. View quote
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If, even at three years old, we turn to the pleasures of memory, the less that is asserted about the felicity of childhood, the less there will be to dispute. View quote
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I wrote my name upon the sand; I thought I wrote it on thine heart. I had no touch of fear, that words, Such words, so graven, could depart. View quote
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I would have rather been a slave In fettered bondage by thy side, Than shared in all the world could give, Had it not given thee beside. View quote
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But give me one curl of thy raven hair, And, by all thy hopes in heaven, swear That, chance what may thou wilt claim thy bride, And thou to-morrow shall lie by my side. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
I loved him as young Genius loves, When its own wild and radiant heaven Of starry thought burns with the light, The love, the life, by passion given. I loved him, too, as woman loves-- Reckless of sorrow, sin, or scorn: Life had no evil destiny That, with him, I could not have borne! View quote
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She gazed, although she knew not why, Where ocean seemed another sky. The moon looked down upon the deep, Till in that deep it seemed to be; Scarce might the eye the image keep Of which was sky, and which was sea. View quote
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Leaves grow green to fall, Flowers grow fair to fade, Fruits grow ripe to rot - All but for passing made. View quote
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Egmont, followed by Clara, Brackenberg, and Citizens. View quote
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