Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Ahmed comes back a conqueror, but what hath he found?
The cry of the orphan is loud on his ear,
And his eye hath beheld the young bride's bitter tear,
And the friend of his youth is left dead on the plain,
And the flower of his nobles return not again.
There are crowds that are filling the air with his name;
Do ye marvel the monarch is loathing his fame?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - The Eastern King
The Golden Violet (1827)

Youth , Flowers , Tear , Cry

“Oh, where is there the heart but knows
Love's first steps are upon the rose!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)

Love , Heart

“A luxury of deep repose! the heart
Must surely beat in quiet here.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1824

Heart

“Time past on as lightly as he always steps over flowers, Brussels carpets, marble terraces, green turfs, or whatever simile may best express a path without an impediment.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Other Gift Books

Flowers , Time , Past

“And then the lute, the lattice, and the girl,
The white rose, and the melancholy song —
Oh, Night, thy reign is over lovely things!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1824

Love , Girl , Night

“social life is fill’d
With doubts and vain aspirings; solitude,
When the imagination is dethroned,
Is turned to weariness.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Life , Imagination , Solitude

“How different too would the real character be from that which is assumed; how little often do the most intimate know of each other. But the difference that the stranger might discover is nothing to that which we trace in ourselves.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No.16. Ivanhoe — ROWENA.
Literary Remains

“But in this world every thing has its evil; the dust is on the wheels of the conqueror's chariot—the silken-wrought tapestry covers the mouldering wall;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

World , Evil

“He had a power; in his eye
There was a quenchless energy,
A spirit that could dare
The deadliest form that Death could take,
And dare it for the daring's sake.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Crescentius from The London Literary Gazette (19th July 1823) Execution of Crescentius
The Improvisatrice (1824)

Death

“Curious it is that every hour of our day is repeated from myriad chimes; and yet how rarely do we attend to the clock striking! Alas! how emblematic is this of the way in which we neglect the many signs of time! How terrible, when we think of what time may achieve, is the manner in which we waste it! At the end of every man's life, at least three-quarters of the mighty element of which that life was composed will be found void—lost—nay, utterly forgotten! And yet that time, laboured and husbanded, might have built palaces, gathered wealth, and, still greater, made an imperishable name.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Life , Way , Thinking , Time

“I am a woman: tell me not of fame.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“How often will the lip frame some indifferent question, when the heart is full of the most important!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Question , Heart , Indifference

“Fanshawe began to talk of the weather; and his auditor was fairly astonished to find how much he had to say about it. He had all but counted the rain-drops; and he was quite aware of every gleam of sunshine that they had had since the morning.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Weather

“I am vain—praise is opium, and the lip
Cannot resist the fascinating draught,
Though knowing its excitement is a fraud—
Delirious—a mockery of fame.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Fraud

“I cannot choose but marvel at the way
In which our lives pass on, from day to day
Learning strange lessons in the human heart,
And yet like shadows letting them depart.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - The Rose
The Golden Violet (1827)

Way , Learning , Heart

“Teach it me, if you can,—forgetfulness!
I surely shall forget, if you can bid me;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Love’s Last Lesson
The Golden Violet (1827)

Forgetting

“Life is a torrid day,
Parched with the dust and sun;
And death's the calm cool night,
When the weary day is done.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(17th December 1825) Poetic Fragmants - Fifth Series
The London Literary Gazette, 1825

Life , Death , Sun , Night

“Passing thus with time away,
The sweet gifts of youth decay;
Fleet their blooms, thus one by one,
Till their very form is gone;
Memory left but to declare
How beautiful and sweet they were!
In the first blue noon of Spring,
Who can think on withering?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(25th December 1824) Faded Flowers
The London Literary Gazette, 1824

Youth , Beauty , Spring , Thinking

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1837 1) (Vol. 49) Memory
The Monthly Magazine

Life , Fate , Fear , Dreams

“Our sky has lost another star,
The earth has claimed its own,
And into dread eternity
A glorious one is gone.
He who could give departed things
So much of light and breath,
He is himself now with the past —
Gone forth from life to death.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(29th September 1832) On the death of Sir Walter Scott
The London Literary Gazette, 1832

Life , Death , Star , Light