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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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“... but a man has a natural antipathy to shopping, and even the attraction of a blush, and a blush especially of that attractive sort, one on your own account--even that was lost in the formidable array of ribands, silks, and bargains—”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is amazing how much our admiration takes its tone from the admiration of others; and when to that is added an obvious admiration of ourselves, the charm is irresistible.”
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“I own it gave my picturesque fancies at first a shock, to hear of a steam-boat on Loch Katrine ; but I was wrong. Nothing could be a more decisive proof of the increased communication between England and Scotland — and communication is the regal road to improvement of every kind.”
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“It is a fearful responsibility, the exercise of influence : let our own conduct bring its own consequences — we may well meet the worst; not so when we have led another to pursue any given line of action : if they suffer, how tenfold is that suffering visited on ourselves !”
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“Not to have your house burned over your head for a twelvemonth seems an unwonted piece of domestic quiet.”
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“Byron idealised and expressed that bitter spirit of discontent which has at the present moment taken a more material and tangible form. He is the incarnation of November. From time immemorial it has been an Englishman's privilege to grumble, and Byron gave picturesque language to the universal feeling.”
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“It is the strangest problem of humanity — one too, for which the closest investigation can never quite account — to trace the progress by which innocence becomes guilt, and how those who formerly trembled to think of crime, are led on to commit that at which they once shuddered.”
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“It is a cruel proof of the want of generosity in human nature, that an affection too utterly self-sacrificing always meets with an evil return.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the passion of jealousy cannot exist without the passion of love, and is like its parent, creative, impetuous, and credulous.”
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“The sweetest and best qualities of our nature may be turned to evil, by the strong force of circumstance and of temptation.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By-the-by, this doctrine of perpetual transmigration would be a curious plea to urge for the non-fulfilment of former engagements ; seven years is I believe the term allotted for the entire change. Now, might not a man encumbered with debt plead at the expiration of the period in the Courts of Westminster, that he was not the person who actually contracted those debts ? Or might not an inconstant couple sue for a divorce, on the plea that neither were the individuals who originally married ?”
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“The history of most fictions would be far stranger than the fictions themselves ; but it would be a dark and sad chronicle.”
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“Literature soon becomes a power, not what it once was, a passion; but literary success, like all others, is only to be obtained, and retained, by labour — and labour and inclination do not always go together. Take all our most eminent writers, and the quantity of work, hard work, they have got through, will be found enormous and perpetual. Literature, as a profession, allows little leisure, and less indulgence.”
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“By turns the woman and the queen, And each as the other had never been.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where had thy life been at this hour, Had not my Love been more than my Power ? — Away, if thou fearest, — love never must, Never can live with one shade of distrust.”
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Recorded in: (1825-2) Antony and Cleopatra. An Anecdote from Plutarch
“Her face was all too bright for tears, she gave Sighs to the wind, and weeping to the wave, And left a lesson unto after-times, Too little dwelt upon in minstrel rhymes, A lesson how inconstancy should be Repaid again by like inconstancy.”
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Recorded in: (1825-2) Ideal Likenesses. Ariadne
“Her heart and lip were music, albeit one Who marvell'd at what her sweet self had done; Who breathed for Love, and pined to find that Fame In answer to her lute's soft summons came; See, the eye droops in sadness, as to shun That which it dared not gaze on, Glory's sun.”
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Recorded in: (1825-2) Ideal Likenesses. Erinna
“I stood between the meeting Years, The coming and the past, And I ask'd of the future one, Wilt thou be like the last?”
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Recorded in: (1826-1) Stanzas on the New Year
“O no, my heart can never be Again in lighted hopes the same — The love that lingers there for thee Has more of ashes than of flame.”
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Recorded in: (1826-2) Ci-Devant
“And when the reckless crowd among I speak of one sweet art, How lightly can I name the song, Which yet has wrung my heart ! That lute and heart alike have chords Not to be spoken of in words —”
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Recorded in: (1826-2) The Wish
“Hope is a timid thing, Fearful, and weak, and born in suffering; At least, such Hope as human life can bring.”
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Recorded in: (1834-1, page 303) The Future. Re-used in Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) Vol. I, Chapter 31
“If blasted hopes and ruin'd name, And all the venom Love lends Shame — The violent death, and rabble eye, To look upon its agony ; If these are not enough to win A pardon for Earth's deadliest sin, Words will not, cannot! — never dare Tell me it may be won by prayer ! The coward prayer, the coward tear, Not from remorse wrung, but from fear!”
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“Around his neck a ribbon clung, Close to his heart a picture hung : I saw the face — it was not mine ; I saw, too, a small dagger shine, A curious toy — you know the rest.”
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Recorded in: (1831-2) The Convict
“Ah, the sweet present ! — should it not suffice ? Not to humanity, which vainly tries To lift the curtain that may never rise !”
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“The Future is more present than the Past : For one look back, a thousand on we cast ; And hope doth ever memory outlast.”
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Recorded in: (1834-1) (Vol.40) The Future, compare Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) I, 31
“In the east the day was reddening, When the warriors pass'd ; In the west the night was deadening, As they looked their last ; As they looked their last on him — He, their comrade — their commander — He, the earth's adored — He, the godlike Alexander ! Who can wield his sword ? As they went their eyes were dim, The silver-shielded warriors, The warriors of the world !”
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Recorded in: (1835-3) (Vol.45) Deathbed of Alexander the Great
“Experience has rude lessons, and we grow Like what we have been taught too late to know, And yet we hate ourselves for being so.”
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Recorded in: (1836-1) (Vol.46) Experience
“As steals the dew along the flower, So stole thy smile on me ; I cannot tell the day, nor hour I first loved thee !”
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Recorded in: (1836-2) (Vol.47) Songs-IV.
“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.”
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Recorded in: (1836-2) (Vol.47) Subjects for Pictures
“All the fairest things of earth, Art's creations have their birth — Still from love and death.”
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Recorded in: (1836-2) (Vol.47) Subjects for Pictures. II. The Banquet of Aspasia and Pericles
“It was hidden in a wild wood Of the larch and pine ; It had been unto his childhood Solitude and shrine, — There he dream'd the hours away.”
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Recorded in: (1836-2) (Vol.47) Subjects for Pictures. III. Rienzi Showing Nina the Tomb of his Brother
“Like a marble statue placed, Looking o'er the watery waste, With its white fixed gaze ; There the Goddess sits, her eye Raised to the unpitying sky ;”
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“She is but the type of all, Mortal or celestial, Who allow the heart, In its passion and its power, On some dark and fated hour, To assert its part.”
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Recorded in: (1836-3) (Vol.48) Subjects for Pictures. Second Series. I. Calypso Watching the Ocean
“Well he knows his course has hasted Through delicious sin, Borne tumultuously along. Never have the stars above Chronicled such utter love.”
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“One sweet whisper from her came ; And he drank to catch her breath, — Wine and sigh alike are death !”
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Recorded in: (1836-3) (Vol.48) Subjects for Pictures. Second Series. II. A Supper of Madame de Brinvilliers
“Once the buds of the pomegranate Paled beside her cheek's warm dye, Now 'tis like the last sad planet Waning in the morning sky — She has wept away its red.”
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Recorded in: (1836-3) (Vol.48) Subjects for Pictures. Second Series. III. The Moorish Maiden’s Vigil
“Lone upon a mountain, the pine-trees wailing round him, Lone upon a mountain the Grecian youth is laid ; Sleep, mystic sleep, for many a year has bound him, Yet his beauty, like a statue's pale and fair, is undecay'd. When will he awaken ?”
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“When every worldly thought is utterly forsaken, Comes the starry midnight, felt by life's gifted few; Then will the spirit from its earthly sleep awaken To a being more intense, more spiritual and true. So doth the soul awaken, Like that youth to night's fair queen !”
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Recorded in: (1837-1) (Vol. 49) Subjects for Pictures. Third Series. I. The Awakening of Endymion
“They named him — ah ! yet Do I start at that name ;”
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Recorded in: (1837 1) (Vol. 49) A Name
“Farewell, and when to-morrow Seems little, like to-day, And we find life's deepest sorrow Melts gradual away ; Yet do not quite forget me.”
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Recorded in: (1837 1) (Vol. 49) Songs - I.
“A day may be a destiny ; for life Lives in but little— but that little teems With some one chance, the balance of all time”
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Recorded in: (1837 1) (Vol. 49) Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week.
“We might have been !— these are but common words, And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing;”
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“How much of the full heart must be A seal'd book at whose contents we tremble ?”
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Recorded in: (1837 1) (Vol. 49) We Might Have Been
“We know not of its presence, though its power Be on the gradual round of every hour, Now flinging down an empire, now a flower.”
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Recorded in: (1837 1) (Vol. 49) Necessity
“To dream and to create has been my fate, Alone, apart from life's more busy scheming ; I fear to think that I may find too late Vain was the toil, and idle was the dreaming.”
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Recorded in: (1837 1) (Vol. 49) Memory
“Lonely by the moonlit waters Does the conqueror stand, Yet unredden'd by the slaughters Of his mighty band. Yet his laurel wants a leaf. There he stands, sad, silent, lonely ; For his hope is vain : He has reached that river only To return again.”
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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.”
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Recorded in: (1837 2) (Vol 50) Subjects for Pictures. Alexander on The Banks of the Hyphasis
“Upon the sunny grass-plot stood the dial, Whose measured time strange contrast with ours made : Ah ! was it omen of life's after trial, That even then the hours were told in shade, In the old, old times, The dear old times ?”
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Recorded in: (1837 3) (Vol 51) The Old Times
“We change, and others change, while recollection Fain would renew what it can but recall : Dark are life's dreams, and weary its affection, And cold its hopes, — and yet I felt them all, A long while ago.”
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Recorded in: (1838 1) (Vol 52) A Long While Ago
“Ever sits the lady weeping — Weeping night and day — One perpetual vigil keeping, Till life pass away, And she join the seven who sleep.”
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