Walter Savage Landor Quote

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.


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


I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place;...

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place;...

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place;...

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place;...