“Death has most awful lessons! It is sad,
Aye, strange, to see even the aged die;
But about youth there is a confidence
In life, that makes it terrible.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1824

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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