| 1830 - 658 pages
...labours, the guiding object of all her verses to discover a remedy for these imperfections of humanity. ' Aware that to elevate I must first soften, and that...faded flower, the broken heart, and the early grave.' We venture to assert, that not one reader in fifty, of Miss Landon's poems, ever suspected that her... | |
| L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) - 1839 - 336 pages
...poetry, may I hazard the expression of what I have myself sometimes trusted to do ? A highly-cultivated state of society must ever have for concomitant evils,...often hardens while it polishes. Aware that to elevate 1 must first soften, and that if I wished to purify I must first touch, I have ever endeavoured to... | |
| Mary Milner - 1846 - 808 pages
...excellent influences of poetry, may 1 hazard the expression of what I have sometimes trusted to do myself. A highly cultivated state of society, must ever have...which too often hardens while it polishes. Aware, that if 1 wished to purify, I must first touch, I have endeavoured to bring forward grief and disappointment,... | |
| Dorothy Mermin - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 334 pages
...the emotions, what subject can be more fitting?" Fates like Catarina's were the staple of her verse. "Aware that to elevate I must first soften, and that...the faded flower, the broken heart, and the early grave."36 LEL's own melodramatic and mysterious death in 1838 provided an occasion to consider not... | |
| Jonah Siegel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 308 pages
...beginning with the need to stimulate the sympathies of a jaded modernity by recourse to melancholy verse: "Aware that to elevate I must first soften, and that...faded flower, the broken heart, and the early grave." A measured irony is Landon's tool when the preface turns to the question of authorial identification... | |
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