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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, née le 14 août 1802 à Chelsea et morte le 15 octobre 1838 en Côte-de-l'Or, est une poétesse et romancière anglaise, plus connue sous ses initiales L.E.L. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. août 1802 – 15. octobre 1838
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Citations en anglais

“What a duty it is to cultivate a pleasant manner! how many a meeting does it make cheerful which would otherwise have been stupid and formal! We do not mean by this the mere routine of polite observance, but we mean that general cheerfulness which, like the sunshine lights up whatever it touches, that attention to others which discovers what subject is most likely to interest them, and that information which, ready for use, is easily laid under contribution by the habit of turning all resources to immediate employ. In short, a really pleasant manner grows out of benevolence, which can be as much shown in a small courtesy as in a great service.”

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Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“We step not over the threshold of childhood till led by Love”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“It is a charmed ring—this emerald stone
Will be a sign, when thou art from me gone.
Mark if it changes; if a spot be seen
On the now spotless ground of lighted green,
Danger is round me; haste thou then to me,
Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.”

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The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)

“None but an ear, quickened as the mind can quicken the faculties of the body, could have heard a step that hesitated on the threshold.”

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Other Gift Books

“But o'er CYRENE'S cheek the rose,
Like moon-touch'd water, ebbs and flows;
And eyes that droop like Summer flowers
Told they could change with shine and showers.”

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The Lost Pleiad
Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“… unshared mirth only damps the spirits of a small circle …”

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The Monthly Magazine

“Well may storm be on the sky,
And the waters roll on high,
When MANMADIN passes by.
Earth below and heaven above
Well may bend to thee, oh Love!”

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Manmadin, The Indian Cupid. Floating down the Ganges from The London Literary Gazette (14th December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme VII
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“They know there must be May within the year,
Else would they never dream that May was here.”

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(12th May 1832) Our Present May
The London Literary Gazette, 1832

“Which is the best,—
Beauty and glory, in a southern clime,
Mingled with thunder, tempest; or the calm
Of skies that scarcely change, which, at the least,
If much of shine they have not, have no storms?”

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Erinna
The Golden Violet (1827)
Variante: Which is the best,—
Beauty and glory, in a southern clime,
Mingled with thunder, tempest; or the calm
Of skies that scarcely change, which, at the least,
If much of shine they have not, have no storms?

“I can conceive no punishment so dreadful as keeping perpetual watch on our words, lest they betray what they mean to conceal; to know no unguarded moment — no careless gaiety — to pine for the confidence which yet we dare not bestow — to tremble, lest that some hidden meaning lurk in a phrase which only our own sickly fancy could torture into bearing such — to have suspicion become a second nature — and to shrink every morning from the glad sunshine, for we know not what a day may bring forth : the wheel of Ixion were a tender mercy compared to such a state.”

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No.12. The Heart of Mid Lothian — EFFIE DEANS.
Literary Remains

“His cheek was pale as marble, and as cold;
But his lip trembled not, and his dark eyes
Glanced proudly round. But when they bared his breast
For the death-shot, and took a portrait thence,
He clenched his hands, and gasped, and one deep sob
Of agony burst from him; and he hid
His face awhile—his mother's look was there.
He could not steel his soul when he recalled
The bitterness of her despair. It passed—
That moment of wild anguish; he knelt down;
That sunbeam shed its glory over one,
Young, proud, and brave, nerved in deep energy;
The next fell over cold and bloody clay....”

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The Deserter from The London Literary Gazette (8th June 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Sixth
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“Autumn was falling, but the pine
Seem'd as it mock'd all change; no sign
Of season on its leaf was seen,
The same dark gloom of changeless green.
But like the gorgeous Persian bands
'Mid the stern race of northern lands,
The chesnut boughs were bright with all
That gilds and mocks the autumn's fall.”

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Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)

“Down swept the gathered waters over rocks
Which broke at times the column's foaming line;
Darkening amid the snow-white froth, it swept
Like an all conquering army, and an arch
Of sparkling hues that in the sunbeams played
Seemed to unite it with the sky which hung
Above all calmness and repose :”

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(16th February 1822) Poetic Sketches, No.6
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

“Alas! that every lovely thing
Lives only but for withering,—
That spring rainbows and summer shine
End but in autumn's pale decline.”

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Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)

“Yet, wake again, I pray thee, wake;
My soul yet lives upon the chords —
My heart must breathe its wrongs, or break :
Yet can it find relief in words!”

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(20th March 1824) Metrical Tales. Tale IV.— The Troubadour
The London Literary Gazette, 1824

“You said in our old ash-tree a bird had built its nest;
Perhaps this very linnet has there its place of rest.
Now who will keep his little ones when night begins to fall?
They have no other shelter, and they will perish all.
There'll be no more sweet singing within that lonely grove;
Now, Henry, free your prisoner, I pray you, for my love.
Our father is a soldier, and in some distant war
He too might be a prisoner in foreign lands afar.”

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The Prisoner
Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“No other language than some soft sweet sounds
She had caught from the voices of the birds
When singing to the morning, and the notes
Sent from the waterfall, when, like a harp,
It held discourse in music with the wind.”

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The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“… when was a woman ever witty without being bitter?”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“There are a thousand fanciful things
Linked round the young heart's imaginings.
In its first love-dream, a leaf or a flower
Is gifted then with a spell and a power:
A shade is an omen, a dream is a sign,
From which the maiden can well divine
Passion's whole history.”

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Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“We read of the gales that bear from the shores of Ceylon the breathings of the cinnamon groves.”

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Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“I stood between the meeting Years,
The coming and the past,
And I ask'd of the future one,
Wilt thou be like the last?”

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(1826-1) Stanzas on the New Year
The Monthly Magazine

“It was no fancy, he had named the name
Of love, and at that thought her cheek grew flame:”

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Juliet after the Masquerade. By Thompson
The Troubadour (1825)

“Tis soothing, oh! most soothing to the heart,
To rove 'mid scenes where once we have been blest!
Each tree, each blossom, has a thrilling charm;
They seem memorials of those happier hours :
The very sigh that tells they are no more,
Is sweet unto the spirit; former days,
And former feelings, rise upon the soul,
Dear as they once have been.”

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Canto II, XII
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)

“It is Rome's secret charm to reconcile
Imagination with our long last sleep.
We are resign'd ourselves, and suffer less
For those we love. The people of the South
Paint closing life in hues less terrible
Than do the gloomy nations of the North :
The sun, like glory, even warms the grave.”

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Chant of Corinne at the Capitol
Translations, From the French

“I did not choose my gift: too soon my heart,
Watch-like, had pointed to a later hour
Than time had reach'd: and as my years pass'd on,
Shadows and floating visions grew to thoughts,
And thoughts found words, the passionate words of song,
And all to me was poetry.”

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A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“Let worldly coldness and care depart,
And yield to the spell of the minstrel's art.”

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The Golden Violet - title poem - The First Day
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Fiction is but moulding together the materials collected by every day, in real as well as imagined life; the highest order of excellence carries the impulse along with it. Nature and fortune have this earth for their place of contention, and the victory is too often with the latter.”

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Literary Remains

“Children are too often unkind to one another, and deny the allowance they so much need in their own case.”

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Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“The first, the very first; oh! none
Can feel again as they have done;
In love, in war, in pride, in all
The planets of life's coronal,
However beautiful or bright,—
What can be like their first sweet light?”

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Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)

“They built a temple for the God,
'Twas in a myrtle grove,
Where the bee and the butterfly
Vied for each blossom's love.”

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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

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