Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.


Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations (ed. 1846)

Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.