Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quote

And this is woman's fate:
All her affections are called into life
By winning flatteries, and then thrown back
Upon themselves to perish; and her heart,
Her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness,
Is left to bleed or break!


The Castilian Nuptuals from The London Literary Gazette (28th September 1822) Poetical Sketches. 3rd series - Sketch the Fourth - The Vow of the Peacock (1835)


And this is woman's fate: All her affections are called into life By winning flatteries, and then thrown back Upon themselves to perish; and her...

And this is woman's fate: All her affections are called into life By winning flatteries, and then thrown back Upon themselves to perish; and her...

And this is woman's fate: All her affections are called into life By winning flatteries, and then thrown back Upon themselves to perish; and her...

And this is woman's fate: All her affections are called into life By winning flatteries, and then thrown back Upon themselves to perish; and her...