“When years have past
Over the fallen arch, the ruin'd hall,
It seems but course of time, the one great doom,
Whose influence is alike upon us all;”

— 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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