Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 August 1802
buds fragrant harvest honey whose yield
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
sweeping assertion
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
applause
anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
right-place
A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.
attachment our-love return
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
elevates future human life looks low nature occupied
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
general people whatever
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.