“All the fairest things of earth,
Art's creations have their birth —
Still from love and death.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1836-2) (Vol.47) Subjects for Pictures. II. The Banquet of Aspasia and Pericles
The Monthly Magazine

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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