Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
"Barrow and Newton".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
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Imaginary Conversations is a publication consisting of five volumes of imaginary conversations, mainly between historical people of classical Greece and Rome, composed by the English author Walter Savage Landor. Landor's fame rests on this prose. The work is noted as a specimen of poetic prose full of rich imagery and ornate diction as seen in De Quincey.
Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
"Aesop and Rhodopè", I.
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
“What is reading but silent conversation.”
Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
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“When a cat flatters… he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.”
Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
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Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
"Cromwell and Noble".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
"Chesterfield and Chatham".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
“Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.”
Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
"Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney".
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