Savage Landor

Famous quotes containing the words savage landor, savage and/or landor:

    “Mother, I cannot mind my wheel;
    My fingers ache, my lips are dry:”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”
    —Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)

    “And about her courts were seen
    Liveried angels robed in green,
    Wearing, by St Patrick’s bounty,
    Emeralds big as half the county.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)