Letitia Elizabeth Landon quotes - page 10

I've thought upon thy brow when Night Threw o'er my pallet her summer moonlight, And I have looked on the midnight sky To catch the depth and light of thy eye; I painted from these and from memory, For I could not paint when I looked on thee. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
There is a city, that for slaves Has kings, and nations, winds, and waves: St. Mark is conscious of her power, His winged lion marks her tower. View quote
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I left my home, and I was left A stranger in his land, bereft Of even hope; there was not one Familiar face to look upon.- Their speech was strange. View quote
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Youth is too eager, forth it flings Itself upon exulting wings, Which seek the heaven they ask too near- One wild flight ends the bright career; With broken wing and darkened eye, Earth claims again its own to die. View quote
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Religion has no limits, and no bounds;- The vast, the infinite, and the eternal., Never from her may Genius separate. Imagination from its earliest flight, Past o'er the bounds of life : and the sublime Is the reflection of divinity. View quote
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Oh! world of sweet phantoms, how precious thou art! The past is perpetual youth to the heart. View quote
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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. View quote
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How sweet on the breeze of the evening swells The vesper call of those soothing bells, Borne softly and dying in echoes away, Like a requiem sung to the parting day. View quote
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Clara: I will speak softly, till our gathered strength Finds in its union voice. Ah, no delay! The tyranny that dared to fetter wears A midnight dagger. View quote
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Death has most awful lessons! It is sad, Aye, strange, to see even the aged die; But about youth there is a confidence In life, that makes it terrible. View quote
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No book is fairly judged till it is read twice, and at distant periods. It is curious to note the variation of taste in ourselves. I can remember I devoured the story keenly, dwelt on all that partook of sentiment, and never questioned the depth of any remark. I now find that I take chief interest in what brings out character. I enter more into the humourous, and am every now and then tempted to analyse the truth of a deduction. I think more over what I am reading, and delight more in connecting the world of fiction with that of reality. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
THE present! it is but a drop from the sea In the mighty depths of eternity. I love it not-it taketh its birth Too near to the dull and the common earth. View quote
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Like prisoners escaped during night from their prison, The waters fling gaily their spray to the sun; Who can tell me from whence that glad river has risen? Who can say whence it springs in its beauty?-not one. View quote
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By turns the woman and the queen, And each as the other had never been. View quote
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Though many a flower may win my praise, The violet has my love; I did not pass my childish days In garden or in grove: My garden was the window-seat, Upon whose edge was set A little vase-the fair, the sweet- It was the violet. View quote
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The Scotch are too cautious to be witty - they take thought beforehand of their answers; they are not people of impulse, and wit is an impulse. "It springs spontaneous if it spring." But then they have humour, rich, racy, sly humour, full of national character, and nearly allied to pathos. View quote
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Blue hyacinths! Oh, do not show them me; they fill my eyes With tears too soft for such a scene as this. View quote
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Pride misers with enjoyment, when we have Delight in things that are but of the mind: But half humility when we partake Pleasures that are half wants, the spirit pines And struggles in its fetters, and disdains The low base clay to which it is allied. View quote
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I believe that the grand secret of attraction is, that the details always turn on what is present to our fears, or gratifying to our vanity. View quote
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Why, the very element of poetry is faith-faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true. View quote
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Oh! never should a woman's words be more Than sighs which have found utterance. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Methinks adieu Is cold, when uttered with aught else but tears. View quote
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It is a curious fact, that the true has always been more opposed at the outset than the false; the circulation of the blood and vaccination nearly lost their discoverers credit and practice, while some vender of quack medicines makes a rapid fortune. This may perhaps be accounted for, simply, that the impostor addresses the multitude, while the scientific discoverer appeals to his brethren in knowledge, all of whom are inclined to deny, what, if admitted, must show, that a great part of their own research and acquirement has been in vain; still he who trades on human credulity will have a good stock on hand, especially when the lure held forth is that of gain. View quote
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A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl. View quote
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She sleeps!-so sleeps the wretch beside the stake: She sleeps!-how dreadful from such sleep to wake! View quote
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