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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, née le 14 août 1802 à Chelsea et morte le 15 octobre 1838 en Côte-de-l'Or, est une poétesse et romancière anglaise, plus connue sous ses initiales L.E.L. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. août 1802 – 15. octobre 1838
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Citations en anglais

“We talk of unsophisticated nature—I should like to know where it is to be found.”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“Awakening hope has named the name
Of love, or blown its spark to flame.
Restlessness, but as the winds range
From leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;
Changefulness, but as rainbows change,
From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.
Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,—
What have the heart and year like spring?”

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Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)

“Tis this which makes
The best assurance of our promised heaven:
This triumph intellect has over death—
Our words yet live on others' lips; our thoughts
Actuate others. Can that man be dead
Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind?”

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A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“Clara:
Neighbours, dear friends, ye dream, ye dream : awake!
Gaze not on me with sadly wondering eyes,
I only bid you to your actual wish.
My voice is but the voice of your own hearts.”

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The London Literary Gazette (7th March 1835)
Translations, From the German

“Out upon the folly which, in estimating human misery, allows aught to bear comparison with the agony of the poor! I use the word poor relatively; I call not those poor to whom honesty brings self-respect, whose habits and whose means have gone together, and whose industry is its own support. But those are the poor whose exertion supplies not their wants—to whom cold, hunger, and weariness, are common feelings; who have known better days—to whom the past furnishes contrast, and the future fear.”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“Lonely — lonely on the shore —
Where the mighty waters roar,
Would that she could pass them o'er!
Doth the maiden stand.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“Difficulty is as needful to appreciation as labour is to existence.”

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No.5. The Antiquary— MISS WARDOUR.
Literary Remains

“Weep not for the dead with a fruitless recalling,
Their soul on the wings of the morning hath fled;
Mourn rather for those whom yet life is enthralling,
Ah! weep for the living—weep not for the dead.”

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All from The Vow of the Peacock - Second Canto
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“Who shall say
The love of genius is a common thing,
Such as the many feel—half selfishness,
Half vanity?—for genius is divine,
And, like a god, doth turn its dwelling-place
Into a temple; and the heart redeem'd
By its fine influence is immortal shrine
For love's divinity.”

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

“Oh, weary day that seemed so long!
Oh, hours that dragged their weight along!”

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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“We know not of its presence, though its power
Be on the gradual round of every hour,
Now flinging down an empire, now a flower.”

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

“Harsh all earth's destinies, — but his most hard
Who may not trust the praise he loves to hear —
Who may not hold his fame sure till, too late,
The seal of death and truth is set by fate.”

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The London Literary Gazette, 1826

“For wishes are effectual but by will,
And that too much is impotent and void
In frail humanity; and time steals by
Sinful and wavering, and unredeem’d.”

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

“Again he was thrown upon his resources; which have always appeared to me the very worst things on which an unfortunate individual can be thrown in the way of amusement.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“In the east the day was reddening,
When the warriors pass'd;
In the west the night was deadening,
As they looked their last;
As they looked their last on him —
He, their comrade — their commander —
He, the earth's adored —
He, the godlike Alexander!
Who can wield his sword?
As they went their eyes were dim,
The silver-shielded warriors,
The warriors of the world!”

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(1835-3) (Vol.45) Deathbed of Alexander the Great
The Monthly Magazine

“Look upon that hour-marked round,
Listen to that fateful sound;
There my silent hand is stealing.
My more silent course revealing;
Wild, devoted Pleasure, hear, —
Stay thee on thy mad career!”

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(27th July 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the First. Time arresting the Career of Pleasure.
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

“It is a gem which hath the power to show
If plighted lovers keep their faith or no :
If faithful, it is like the leaves of spring;
If faithless, like those leaves when withering.”

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The Emerald Ring — a Superstition from The London Literary Gazette (28th December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme XI
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“Is there some nameless boding sent,
Like a noiseless voice from the tomb?—
A spirit note from the other world,
To warn of death and doom?”

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The Wreck from The London Literary Gazette (10th September 1825) - under the pen name Iole
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“Those sweet, vague sounds are on the air,
Half sleep, half song--half false, half true,
As if the wind that brought them there
Had touched them with its music too.”

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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“[Alvine] Oh, that sweet ring of graceful figures! one
Flings her white arms on high, and gaily strikes
Her golden cymbals — I can almost deem
I hear their beatings; one with glancing feet
Follows her music, while her crimson cheek
Is flushed with exercise, till the red grape
'Mid the dark tresses of a sister nymph
Is scarcely brighter; there another stands,
A darker spirit yet, with joyous brow,
And holding a rich goblet;”

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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“Mysterious enthusiasm, Love!
The heart's supremest power;—which doth combine
Within itself religion, poetry,
And heroism.”

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Translations, From the French

“In this consists the difference between painting and poetry : the painter reproduces others, — the poet reproduces himself.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“Rode by radiant shapes that seem
Creatures made of bloom and beam,
With their hair and plumes' gay dyes
Glorious as the morning skies.”

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The London Literary Gazette, 1824

“Hope is love's happiness, but not its life;—
How many hearts have nourished a vain flame
In silence and in secret, though they knew
They fed the scorching fire that would consume them!”

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The Improvisatrice (1824)

“The shadow of the church falls o'er the ground,
Hallowing its place of rest; and here the dead
Slumber, where all religious impulses,
And sad and holy feelings, angel like,
Make the spot sacred with themselves, and wake
Those sorrowful emotions in the heart
Which purify it, like a temple meet
For an unearthly presence. Life, vain Life,
The bitter and the worthless, wherefore here
Do thy remembrances intrude?”

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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“I rather disdained than coveted the luxuries I saw : alas! we desire riches more for others than ourselves.”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“What is the reason that we find it so satisfactory to make excuses to ourselves—the only persons in the world to whom they must be altogether needless?”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“A woman whose lover resigns her, and as if for her own sake, though without consulting her, is placed in a most awkward situation. What can she do? Take him at his word? That is easy to say, but hard to do, when all the hopes and affections are garnered in his love.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“What a visionary thing is the independence of youth! how full of projects, which take the shape of certainties! How much of rugged and stern experience it requires to convince the young and the eager, that the efforts of an individual unaided by connexion or circumstance, are the true reading of the allegory of the Danaides : —industry and skill, alas, how often are they but water drawn with labour into a bucket full of holes!”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

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