“{of Theatres} There, while weeping for sorrows which are not, laughing at the light jest or the ludicrous misadventure, how little is remembered of the want which makes fear the only bond that binds the living to life!”

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon785

English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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