Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Likeness

Letitia Elizabeth Landon was English poet and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“It is curious to observe how little one period resembles another. Centuries are the children of one mighty family, but here is no family-likeness between them.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

“For he had curious colours, that could give
The human face so like, it seem'd to live.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

“It was a summer evening; and the sea
Seem'd to rejoice in its tranquillity;
Rolling its gentle waters to the west,
Till the rich crimson blush'd upon their breast,
Uniting lovingly the wave and sky,
Like Hope content in its delight to die.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

“music's power
Is little felt in sunlit hour;
But hear its voice when hopes depart,
Like swallows, flying from the heart
On which the summer's late decline
Has set a sadness and a sign;......
How deeply will the spirit feel
The lute, the song's sweet-voiced appeal;
And how the heart drink in their sighs
As echoes they from Paradise.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto IV
The Troubadour (1825)

“Like a human thought in quest
Of a future hour.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1838 2) (Vol 53) Subjects for Pictures - Ariadne Watching the Sea after the Departure of Theseus
The Monthly Magazine

“I like to be candid in my admissions — it is so very disarming; you forestall the objection which you admit — at least your adversary has scarcely the heart to push to its utmost the advantage which you so meekly confess.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

“A letter then, breathing of home and affection, is a treasure; it is like a memento from the dead, for absence is as death in all but that its resurrection is in this life.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Other Gift Books

“It is like love; oh love should be
An ever-changing thing, —
The love that I could worship must
Be ever on the wing.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

April from The London Literary Gazette (5th April 1823)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“He leapt upon his steed, and like the wind
They speed them on; at first his giddy brain
Swam like a chaos— mystery of the mind
Which would guide its own workings, but in vain :”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1826

“Faintly coloured like a dream of bliss, a half formed rainbow hung on the departing storm, as fearful of yet giving promise of peace.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Other Gift Books

“One of those gifted ones that walk the earth,
Like angels in their beauty, and the while
The air is filled with music from their wings.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(31st January 1829) Lines to the Author after Reading the Sorrows of Rosalie
The London Literary Gazette, 1829

“Alas! alas! how plague-spot like will sin
Spread over the wrung heart it enters in!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Title poem, section VIII.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“He sung,—the notes at first were low,
Like the whispers of love, or the breathings of woe:
The waters were hushed, and the winds were stay'd,
As he sang his farewell to his Lesbian maid!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Arion from The London Literary Gazette (23rd November 1822) Fragments in Rhyme IV
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“A weight is on the air, for ev'ry breeze
Has, bird-like, folded up its wings for sleep.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

“Are we not like that actor of old time,
Who wore his mask so long his face took
Its likeness?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A Summer Evening’s Tale
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“But the tyranny of custom, like all other tyrannies, when grown quite unbearable—for it is wonderful what people will endure-; had already sown the seeds of its own dissolution. Out of the hardship had grown the repining, and to repine at the exercise of an alleged right is soon to question its authority, and the first question asked shakes the whole ancient and time-honoured fabric of privilege.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Other Gift Books

“Farewell, and when to-morrow
Seems little, like to-day,
And we find life's deepest sorrow
Melts gradual away;
Yet do not quite forget me.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1837 1) (Vol. 49) Songs - I.
The Monthly Magazine

“There is no tie
Like that last holiest link of love, which binds
The lonely child to its more lonely parent.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(5th July 1823) A Tale Founded on Fact
12th July 1823) Glencoe see The Vow of the Peacock (1835
(19th July 1823) Execution of Crescentius see The Improvisatrice (1824) Crescentius
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“In the very lowest class it is well to be bred up amid those scenes wherein our future is cast; nothing ever supplies the place of those early associations — nothing ever knits the heart to the place of its birth like the remembrances of childhood — nothing can give the entire knowledge of a people, but having been brought up among them.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No.19. The Abbot — MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Literary Remains

“THE fountain's low singing is heard on the wind,
Like a melody bringing sweet fancies to mind;
Some to grieve, some to gladden: around them they cast
The hopes of the morrow, the dreams of the past.
Away in the distance is heard the vast sound,
From the streets of the city that compass it round,
Like the echo of mountains, or ocean's deep call;
Yet that fountain's low singing is heard over all.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Middle Temple Gardens
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)