Obras
Imaginary Conversations
Walter Savage LandorFrases célebres de Walter Savage Landor
“Demorar la justicia es injusticia.”
Original: «Delay of justice is injustice».
Fuente: «Demorar la justicia, es injusticia.» http://www.eldiario.ec/noticias-manabi-ecuador/28919-demorar-la-justicia-es-injusticia/ El Diario. Consultado el 14 de septiembre de 2019.
Fuente: [Stevenson], Burton Egbert (en inglés). The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases, pp. 395, 1290. Macmillan, 1948. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=QHgbAQAAMAAJ&dq=delay+justice+is+unjust+Landor&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Landor En Google Books. Consultado el 14 de septiembre de 2019.
Fuente: «Peter Leopold and President Du Paty.» Imaginary Conversations (c. 1829)
«There is no State in Europe where the least wise have not governed the most wise».
Fuente: (En inglés.) Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21628/21628-h/21628-h.htm Project Gutenberg EBook. Consultado el 14 de septiembre de 2019.
Fuente: «Rousseau and Malesherbes.» Imaginary Conversations (c. 1829)
“Nada me es más placentero que explorar una biblioteca.”
«Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring a library».
Fuente: [Landor], Walter Savage (en inglés). The Works of Walter Savage Landor..., p. 391. E. Moxon, 1853. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=Rp9QAAAAcAAJ&q=nothing+is+pleasanter#v=snippet&q=nothing%20is%20pleasanter&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 19 de septiembre de 2019.
Fuente: Aspasia a Cleone, Pericles and Aspasia, XCI (1836).
Walter Savage Landor Frases y Citas
“A veces me falta una palabra en inglés; en latín, nunca.”
«I am sometimes at a loss for an English word, for a Latin never».
Fuente: (En inglés.) Ficha biográfica. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/walter-savage-landor Poetry Foundation. Consultado el 14 de septiembre de 2019.
Original: «Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest».
«Cities, in adopting a name, bear it usually as a testimony of victories or as an augury of virtues. Small and obscure places, occasionally, receive what their neighbours throw against them; as Puerto de la mala muger in Murcia».
Fuente: Introducción a Count Julian: A Tragedy (1812)
“La competitividad es igual de beneficiosa en la religión como en el comercio.”
Original: «Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce».
Fuente: Imaginary Conversations (c. 1829)
“Es asombroso que la época más importante de la historia de España sea la más desconocida.”
«It is remarkable that the most important era in Spanish history should be the most obscure».
Fuente: [Landor], Walter Savage (en inglés). Count Julian: A Tragedy. Londres: John Murray, 1812. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4008/4008-h/4008-h.htm Project Gutenberg EBook. Consultado el 14 de septiembre de 2019.
Fuente: Introducción a Count Julian: A Tragedy (1812)
Walter Savage Landor: Frases en inglés
"Aesop and Rhodopè", I.
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
"Barrow and Newton".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
“What is reading but silent conversation.”
Fuente: Imaginary Conversations
“When a cat flatters… he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.”
Fuente: Imaginary Conversations
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 8.
Gebir, Book I (1798). Compare: "Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed/ Mysterious union with his native sea", William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book iv. Wordsworth's prompted Landor to comment, "Poor shell! that Wordsworth so pounded and flattened in his marsh it no longer had the hoarseness of a sea, but of a hospital", Walter Savage Landor, Letter to John Forster.
Epitaph on Dirce - George Orwell called it 'one of the best epitaphs in English - If I were a woman it would be my favourite epitaph-it would be the one I should like to have for myself." - quoted in Orwell:Collected Works, It is What I Think, p. 45.
To Robert Browning (1846). Compare: "Nor sequent centuries could hit/ Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit", Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces, Solution.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 33.
"Cromwell and Noble".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
"Chesterfield and Chatham".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
“Ah what avails the sceptered race,
Ah what the form divine!”
Rose Aylmer (1806).
I Strove with None (1853). The work is identified in Bartlett's Quotations, 10th edition (1919) as Dying Speech of an old Philosopher.
Quoted in W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge, The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, 1944, p. 161.
“Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.”
"Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
The last Fruit of an old Tree, Epigram cvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Gebir, Book I (1798). It is reported that "these lines were specially singled out for admiration by Shelley, Humphrey Davy, Scott, and many remarkable men"; Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), citing Forster, Life of Landor, vol. i. p. 95.
