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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 Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Beauty
Pleasant
Glorified
Ideas
Less
Pictures
Ingenious
Better
Show
Harmony
Render
Life
Words
Raised
Statues
Living
Ordinary
Harmonious
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Acceptable
Light
Novel
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