“How many glorious structures we had raised
Upon Hope's sandy basis!”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

St. George’s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner from London Literary Gazette (25th May 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Fourth
The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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