Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Trending quotes (page 17)

“They say women are more constant than men : it is the constancy of circumstance; the enterprise, the exertion required of men continually force them out of themselves, and that which was at first necessity soon becomes habit — whereas the constant round of employments in which a woman is engaged requires no fatigue of mind or body; the needle is, generally speaking, both her occupation and amusement, and this kind of work leaves the ideas full play; hence the imagination is left at liberty to dwell upon one subject, and hence habit, which is an advantage on the one side, becomes to her an additional rivet.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Other Gift Books

Women , Men , Imagination , Idea

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1824

Life , Death , Youth , Age

“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

No.17. The Monastery — MARY AVENEL.
Literary Remains

Truth , Books , World , Question

“Up climb’d the sweet pea,
The butterfly of flowers:—I love it not,
Though every hue—and it has many tints—
Are dyed as if the sunset evening clouds
Had fallen to the earth in sudden rain,
And left their colours : purple, delicate pink,
And snowy white, are on thy wing-like leaves;
But thou art all too forward in thy bloom;
Thy blossoms are the sun’s, and cling to all
That can support them into open day:
And then they die, leaving no root behind,
The hope and promise of another spring;
And no perfume, whose lingering gratitude
Remains round what upheld its summer’s life.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Last of the St. Aubyns
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Love , Life , Hope , Art

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Love , Birth , Sea

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Minstrel’s Monitor from Literary Souvenir, 1827
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Beauty , Spring , Water , Sun

“By turns the woman and the queen,
And each as the other had never been.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Violet from The Literary Souvenir, 1831
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Love , Flowers

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literary Remains

People , Spring

“T was night, but night which the imperial moon,
Regal in her full beauty, turn'd to noon,
But still the noon of midnight; though the ray
Was clear and bright, it was not that of day;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)

Beauty , Night

“But as our explanation will be more brief than one broken in upon by words of wonder, regret, and affection, we will proceed to it; holding that explanation, like advice, should be of all convenient shortness.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“Blue hyacinths!
Oh, do not show them me; they fill my eyes
With tears too soft for such a scene as this.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Tear

“But this is as a dream, — the plough has pass'd
Where the stag bounded, and the day has looked
On the green twilight of the forest-trees.
This Oak has no companion!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The Oak from The London Literary Gazette (19th April 1823) Fragments
The Improvisatrice (1824)

Dreams , Tree

“The moon is darkened in the sky
As if grief 's shade were passing by;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“And here at length is somewhat of revenge:
For man's most golden dreams of pride and power
Are vain as any woman-dreams of love;
Both end in weary brow and wither'd heart,
And the grave closes over those whose hopes
Have lain there long before.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Love’s Last Lesson
The Golden Violet (1827)

Love , Dreams , Hope , Revenge

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Erinna
The Golden Violet (1827)

Pleasure

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No.13. The Legend of Montrose — ANNOT LYLE.
Literary Remains

Secret , Fear

“All beginnings are very troublesome things.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“Why, the very element of poetry is faith—faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Faith , Beauty

“Oh! never should a woman's words be more
Than sighs which have found utterance.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(5th June 1825) Portraits I
The London Literary Gazette, 1825