WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR QUOTES IV

English writer and poet (1775-1864)


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It often comes into my head
That we may dream when we are dead,
But I am far from sure we do.
O that it were so! then my rest
Would be indeed among the blest;
I should for ever dream of you.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
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"To Ianthe"


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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

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The Pentameron: Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare

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We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

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Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

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Pericles and Aspasia


Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful.

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Aphorisms

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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

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Imaginary Conversations

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