Madeleine Quinn
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Truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth; – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The past was once the future, and it wrought In the high presence of on-looking thought ; All that we have, was by its efforts brought. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Praise — actual personal praise— oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago

	This poem is from Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures, in The Troubadour and Other Poems, 1825 2 days ago	View
	For a definitive version of this poem, see under its correct title 'Olinthus Gregory, L. L. D., F. R. A. S., &c.' 2 days ago	View
	This is Sonnet: Thoughts and Recollections, No. 8 3 days ago	View
	From Winter's Wreath, 1831 Hemans visited Sir Walter Scott at his home in Abbotsford. 3 days ago	View
	An amazing history. 4 days ago	View
	From Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures, in The Troubadour and Other Poems, 1825 5 days ago	View
	One of my favourites. 5 days ago	View
	This poem is also shown under 'Sassoor, in the Deccan'. It comes from Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835. 6 days ago	View
	From The Amulet, 1830 7 days ago	View
	From Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures in The Troubadour and Other Poems, 1824 7 days ago	View
	From Etty's Rover in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835 7 days ago	View
	From Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833. 7 days ago	View
	From Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837. The plate referred to is attached here. 7 days ago	View
	From The Troubadour and Other Poems, 1825 Sketches from History The note * states ' *These lines allude to the flight of the last king of Grenada. 7 days ago	View
	This poem is from The Literary Gazette, 1823 and The Improvisatrice and Other Poems, 1824 8 days ago	View