Letitia Elizabeth Landon quotes - page 8

Who has not loathed that worst, that waking hour, When grief and consciousness assert their power; When misery has morn's freshness, yet we fain Would hold it as a dream, and sleep again. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
[From Cecil Forrester]: Nothing like love-letters for filling up a rainy morning. A mistress gives a man such an interest in himself! You cannot run your fingers through your hair, without a vision of the locket wherein one of your curls reposes on the fairest neck in the world. An east-wind only conjures up a host of "sweet anxieties;" and if the worst comes to the worst, you can sit down and write sonnets to your inamorata's eyebrow. View quote
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I had lost of humanity but its illusions, and they alone are what render it supportable. View quote
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Huge bodies of vapour-a storm in each-were hurrying over a sky, dashed alike with the hues of the tempest and the morning; some of the vapours were of inky blackness, others spread like a scroll of royal purple; some undulated with the light struggling through, others were of transparent whiteness; but those upon the east were of a deep crimson-and the round, red sun had just mounted above an enormous old cedar. Red hues were cast upon everything; even the lilies blushed, and the waters of the little fountain were like melted rubies... View quote
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Oh, love is timid in its birth! Watching her lightest look or stir, As he but look'd and breathed with her. Gay words were passing, but he leant In silence; yet, one quick glance sent,- His secret is no more his own, When has woman her power not known? View quote
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I'm weary, I'm weary,-this cold world of ours; I will go dwell afar, with fairies and flowers. .... I'm weary, I'm weary,-I'm off with the wind: Can I find a worse fate than the one left behind? View quote
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And the hall is lone, and the hall is drear, For the smiling of woman shineth not here. View quote
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Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality. View quote
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We do too little feel each others' pain; We do relax too much the social chain That binds us to each other; slight the care There is for grief in which we have no share. View quote
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Tis something, if in absence we can see The footsteps of the past: it soothes the heart To breathe the air scented in other years By lips beloved; to wander through the groves Where once we were not lonely. View quote
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The past! ah, we owe it a tenderer debt, Heaven's own sweetest mercy is not to forget; Its influence softens the present, and flings A grace, like the ivy, wherever it clings. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
(of names) Literary godfathers and godmothers, like those in real life, have much to answer for, on the score of the inappropriate. View quote
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what an odd thing it is, that the indications of terror are usually ludicrous! View quote
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Oh, she had yet the task to learn How often woman's heart must turn To feed upon its own excess Of deep yet passionate tenderness! How much of grief the heart must prove That yields a sanctuary to love! View quote
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There is truth and certainty in our first impressions. First impressions are natural monitors, and nature is a true guide. View quote
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Truly, night was made for sleep; since to its wakeful hours belongs an oppression unknown to the very dreariest hours of day. The stillness is so deep, the solitude so unbroken, the fever brought on by want of rest so weakens the nerves, that the imagination exercises despotic and unwholesome power, till, if the heart have a fear or a sorrow, up it arises in all the force and terror of gigantic exaggeration. View quote
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The gallantry of an English peasant rarely expands into words. View quote
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We met in secret : mystery is to love Like perfume to the flower; the maiden's blush Looks loveliest when her cheek is pale with fear. View quote
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Beautiful and radiant May, Is not this thy festal day? Is not this spring revelry Held in honour, Queen, of thee? View quote
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My heart is like the failing hearth Now by my side, One by one its bursts of flame Have burnt and died. View quote
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Tis strange how the heart can create Or colour from itself its fate; We make ourselves our own distress, We are ourselves our happiness. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Hope is a timid thing, Fearful, and weak, and born in suffering; At least, such Hope as human life can bring. View quote
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A summer isle, one over which the wind Hath ever pass'd in melody,- such airs As are born in the rose's breast, and die Like singing on the waters. View quote
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They met with cold words, and yet colder looks: Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought The other only changed, himself the same. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No one makes the heart of a little home circle entirely their own, without some very sweet gifts of nature - we must love to be beloved. View quote
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