“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)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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