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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

“I am a woman: tell me not of fame.”

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A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“How often will the lip frame some indifferent question, when the heart is full of the most important!”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“Fanshawe began to talk of the weather; and his auditor was fairly astonished to find how much he had to say about it. He had all but counted the rain-drops; and he was quite aware of every gleam of sunshine that they had had since the morning.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“I am vain—praise is opium, and the lip
Cannot resist the fascinating draught,
Though knowing its excitement is a fraud—
Delirious—a mockery of fame.”

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A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“I cannot choose but marvel at the way
In which our lives pass on, from day to day
Learning strange lessons in the human heart,
And yet like shadows letting them depart.”

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The Golden Violet - The Rose
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Teach it me, if you can,—forgetfulness!
I surely shall forget, if you can bid me;”

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Love’s Last Lesson
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Life is a torrid day,
Parched with the dust and sun;
And death's the calm cool night,
When the weary day is done.”

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(17th December 1825) Poetic Fragmants - Fifth Series
The London Literary Gazette, 1825

“Passing thus with time away,
The sweet gifts of youth decay;
Fleet their blooms, thus one by one,
Till their very form is gone;
Memory left but to declare
How beautiful and sweet they were!
In the first blue noon of Spring,
Who can think on withering?”

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(25th December 1824) Faded Flowers
The London Literary Gazette, 1824

“To dream and to create has been my fate,
Alone, apart from life's more busy scheming;
I fear to think that I may find too late
Vain was the toil, and idle was the dreaming.”

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(1837 1) (Vol. 49) Memory
The Monthly Magazine

“Our sky has lost another star,
The earth has claimed its own,
And into dread eternity
A glorious one is gone.
He who could give departed things
So much of light and breath,
He is himself now with the past —
Gone forth from life to death.”

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(29th September 1832) On the death of Sir Walter Scott
The London Literary Gazette, 1832

“I am a daughter of that land,
Where the poet’s lip and the painter’s hand
Are most divine, —where the earth and sky,
Are picture both and poetry—
I am of Florence.”

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Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little— but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time”

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(1837 1) (Vol. 49) Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week.
The Monthly Magazine

“For human tears are lava-drops,
That scorch and wither as they flow;
Then let them flow for those who live,
And not for those who sleep below.”

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The Churchyard from The London Literary Gazette (3rd January 1829)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“How noble and ennobling!—but within
How mean, how poor, how pitiful, how mix'd
With base alloy; how Disappointment tracks
The steps of Hope; how Envy dogs success;
How every victor's crown is lined with thorns,
And worn mid scoffs!”

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A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“Oh, blessedness!
To see the fair creations of the thought
Assume a visible form; sweet Poesy!
How witching is thy power upon the heart;
Enchantment that does bind our senses up
In one unutterable influence;
A charmed spell set over every thought,
Till life's whole hope is cast upon the lyre.”

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(26th January 1822) Poetic Sketches, No.3
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

“Youth's first acquaintance with sorrow is a terrible thing—before time has taught, what it will surely teach, that grief is our natural portion, at once transitory and eternal. But the first lesson is the severest—we have not then looked among our fellows, and seen that suffering is general; and we feel as if marked out by fate for misery that has no parallel.”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“I'm weary, I'm weary. Oh! pleasure is pain
When its spell has been broken again and again.
I am weary of smiles that are bought and are sold,
I am weary of beauty whose fetters are gold,
I am weary of wealth—what makes it of me
But that which the basest and lowest might be?”

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The Golden Violet - The Eastern King
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Oh! why should woman ever love,
Trusting to one false star above;
And fling her little chance away
Of sunshine for its treacherous ray.”

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Canto IV
The Troubadour (1825)

“A story from the stars; or rather one
Of starry fable from the olden time,
When young Imagination was as fresh
As the fair world it peopled with itself.”

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The Lost Pleiad
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“For many years he has not breathed the air,
The wholesome open air; the sun, the moon,
The stars, the clouds, the fair blue heaven, the spring,
The flowers, the trees, and the sweet face of man,
Song, or words yet more musical than song,
Affections, feelings, social intercourse
(Unless remembered in his fairy dreams)
Have all been strangers to his solitude! —
A curse is set on him, like poverty,
Or leprosy, or the red plague, but worse, —
The heart has sent its fire up to the brain,
And he is mad.”

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(5th April 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Pictures. A Maniac visited by his Family in confinement : by Davis.
5th April 1823) April see The Vow of the Peacock (1835
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“I own it gave my picturesque fancies at first a shock, to hear of a steam-boat on Loch Katrine; but I was wrong. Nothing could be a more decisive proof of the increased communication between England and Scotland — and communication is the regal road to improvement of every kind.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“Did we not know this world to be but a place of trial — our bitter probation for another and for a better — how strange in its severity would seem the lot of genius in a woman. The keen feeling — the generous enthusiasm — the lofty aspiration — and the delicate perception — are given but to make the possessor unfitted for her actual position.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“for earth were too like heaven,
If length of life to love were given.”

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The Improvisatrice (1824)

“Do any thing but love; or if thou lovest
And art a Woman, hide thy love from him
Who thou dost worship; never let him know
How dear he is; flit like a bird before him, —
Lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower;
But be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird,
When caught and caged, be left to pine neglected,
And perish in forgetfulness.”

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(26th April 1823) Fragment - Do any thing but love ; or if thou lovest
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“Love's gifts are like the vein of gold
That intersects earth's darker mould;
The gold is gained, the coin is wrought;
But how much trouble has it brought?”

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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“Experience has rude lessons, and we grow
Like what we have been taught too late to know,
And yet we hate ourselves for being so.”

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(1836-1) (Vol.46) Experience
The Monthly Magazine

“Once the buds of the pomegranate
Paled beside her cheek's warm dye,
Now 'tis like the last sad planet
Waning in the morning sky —
She has wept away its red.”

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(1836-3) (Vol.48) Subjects for Pictures. Second Series. III. The Moorish Maiden’s Vigil
The Monthly Magazine

“What a strange page in human history is that of social distinction; no people so savage but they have a sort of fashion. Even among the wild people in whose country I am now writing, there are all the small distinctions of small gentility — for example, it is not "comme il faut to wear silk."”

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No.18. The Monastery — MYSIE HAPPER.
Literary Remains

“… Oh! burning are the drops
That wounded love will shed—like to the dew
Falling from off the poison tree, the blight
Still following the touch;—ah! other tears
Soften and bless—but these destroy the heart.”

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Canto II, XVII
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)

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