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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

Walter Savage Landor
Heart, Reflection, Melancholy
Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.114
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.