Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
Walter Savage LandorJustice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
Walter Savage LandorThe moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
Walter Savage Landor