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The Pentameron
Excerpt from The Pentameron
We struggle with death while we have friends around to Cheer the moment we miss them we lose all heart for the contest. Pardon my re?ection! I ought to have remembered I am not in my stone pulpit, nor at home.
We struggle with death while we have friends around to Cheer the moment we miss them we lose all heart for the contest. Pardon my re?ection! I ought to have remembered I am not in my stone pulpit, nor at home.
316 pages, Nook
First published September 4, 2010
About the author
Walter Savage Landor
513 books31 followersWalter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist.
Landor's best known work is the multi-volume Imaginary Conversations, written during his years living in Italy. He died in Florence at age 89.
Throughout his life, Landor travelled widely and had a notable circle of friends including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Lamb, Countess Blessington, Robert Browning and Charles Dickens. Landor was the godfather of Dickens's son Walter Landor Dickens.
The writer, explorer, and adventurer Arnold Henry Savage Landor is his grandson.
Landor's best known work is the multi-volume Imaginary Conversations, written during his years living in Italy. He died in Florence at age 89.
Throughout his life, Landor travelled widely and had a notable circle of friends including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Lamb, Countess Blessington, Robert Browning and Charles Dickens. Landor was the godfather of Dickens's son Walter Landor Dickens.
The writer, explorer, and adventurer Arnold Henry Savage Landor is his grandson.
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