“All, lingering, stayed to gaze
Upon this Eden of the painter's art,
And looking on its loveliness, forgot
The crowded world around them!”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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