Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A Girl at her Devotions. By Newton
The Troubadour (1825)
“When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 17
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