Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865 – 26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer and anthropologist, born in Florence. His grandfather was the poet and writer Walter Savage Landor, who himself lived for long periods in Florence.
Read more about Arnold Henry Savage Landor: Early Life and Training, First Expedition To America, and The Far East, Later Travels, Inventions, Later Years, Works
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“I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
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“In history the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty;—and you have Pericles and Phidias,—and not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and in the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astrigency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.”
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“Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes
May weep, but never see,
A night of memories and of sighs
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