Walter Savage Landor — a remark

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“You must always love them as much as I love you, and you must teach them how to be good boys, which I cannot do as well as you can.”

A father's trust in his child's goodness · Letter to his son Arnold (as quoted in Edward Dowden, Studies in Literature, 1878)

About Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

30 January 1775–17 September 1864

Walter Savage Landor was born on 30 January 1775 at Ipsley Court, near Warwick, England, into circumstances of comfort, cultivation, and inherited expectation. His father, Walter Landor, was a physician of substantial means and social standing; his mother, Elizabeth Savage, came from a family whose name and property…

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