OF

LITERARY MEN AND STATESMEN

BY

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ.

THE THIRD VOLUME.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1828.

ΤΟ

BOLIVAR

THE LIBERATOR.

Ir the volume I present to you, O Liberator, be in itself of a perishable nature, not even your name can support it; for dust drops off a golden image as readily as off an earthen one: and if the sentiments I profess are untrue, that illustrious name can but render them the more detestable. So be it!

Deign to accept, sir, I will not say the homage.. such words ill suit both you and me.. let me rather say the dutiful and pious offering, of one who from youth upward has laboured in the same cause with