Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
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I dreamed a dream, that I had flung a chainOf roses around Love,-I woke, and foundI had chained Sorrow.
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Alas! that every lovely thingLives only but for withering,-That spring rainbows and summer shineEnd but in autumn's pale decline.
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-music's powerIs little felt in sunlit hour;But hear its voice when hopes depart,Like swallows, flying from the heartOn which the summer's late declineHas set a sadness and a sign;. . . . . .How deeply will the spirit feelThe lute, the song's sweet-voiced appeal;And how the heart drink in their sighsAs echoes they from Paradise.
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From Cesario
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A despotic power makes slaves.
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'Tis not for Spring to think on allThe sear and waste of Autumn's fall: -
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Where, oh, where's the chain to fling,One that will chain Cupid's wing-One that will have longer powerThan the April sun or shower?
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-to enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others; …
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... oh! love will lastWhen all that made it happiness is past,-When all its hopes are as the glittering toysTime present offers, time to come destroys,-
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From Arrezi
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There is no denying the fact, that in all sudden emergencies a woman has ten times the presence of mind, or, to use the common expression, her wits more about her than a man.
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The first, the very first; oh! noneCan feel again as they have done;In love, in war, in pride, in allThe planets of life's coronal,However beautiful or bright,-What can be like their first sweet light?
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Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever.
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What a mistake rage is ! anger should never go beyond a sneer, if it really desires revenge.
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AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,Ay, screen it if you may,-Yet I misdoubt thy trembling handWill scare the hawk away.
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The gallantry of an English peasant rarely expands into words.
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From Castruccio
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The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
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How strong is the love of the country in all indwellers of towns !
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… who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
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We talk of unsophisticated nature-I should like to know where it is to be found.
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Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.
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It is a humbling thing to human pride to observe that strength of mind does not preserve its possessor from indulging any favourite delusion; but that this very strength gives its own force to the belief.
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How sweet on the breeze of the evening swellsThe vesper call of those soothing bells,Borne softly and dying in echoes away,Like a requiem sung to the parting day.