01c. 1819 ADRose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
02c. 1819 ADWearers of rings and chains! Pray do not take the pains To set me right. In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Sunium's hight.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
03c. 1819 ADShakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,— Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
05c. 1819 ADBut I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
06c. 1819 ADPast are three summers since she first beheld The ocean; all around the child await Some exclamation of amazement here. She coldly said, her long-lasht eyes abased, Is this the mighty ocean? is this all? That wondrous soul Charoba once possest,— Capacious, then, as earth or heaven could hold, Soul discontented with capacity,— Is gone (I fear) forever. Need I say She was enchanted by the wicked spells Of Gebir, whom with lust of power inflamed The western winds have landed on our coast? I since have watcht her in lone retreat, Have heard her sigh and soften out the name.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
07c. 1819 ADI strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
08c. 1819 ADThe heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
09c. 1819 ADWe must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
10c. 1819 ADA great man is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
11c. 1819 ADCircumstances are things round about; we are in them, not under them.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
12c. 1819 ADClear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
13c. 1819 ADCruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
14c. 1819 ADDemocracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilise the land they are cast upon.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
15c. 1819 ADDespotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
16c. 1819 ADEvery good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
17c. 1819 ADEvery great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times; and, indeed, if only his own effigy were there, it would be greatly more than a fragment of his century.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
18c. 1819 ADEverything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low as when occupied with the present.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
20c. 1819 ADFriendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
21c. 1819 ADGreat men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
22c. 1819 ADGreat men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.Walter Savage Landor / quote ↗
