Living

Better to Praise Too Largely Small Deserts

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)

Living

Better to praise too largely small deserts,
Than censure too severely great defects.

MLA

Landor, Walter Savage. “Better to Praise Too Largely Small Deserts.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/619/.

Chicago

Landor, Walter Savage. “Better to Praise Too Largely Small Deserts.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/619/.

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