Precipitancy of judgment and heat of temper are responsible for
all the errors of Walter Savage Landor’s life. To recount these
errors is neither wise, necessary, nor generous. One thing,
however, is noticeable, that in every case the difficulties
which he created for himself arose from a sort of undisciplined
magnanimity of nature, a belief in impracticable ideals, a
radical inability to adapt himself to the common convictions
of life. He sinned against himself in a hundred instances, but
against others never. His generosity was extreme and incessant.
In his enormous agricultural experiments at Llanthony he
squandered seventy thousand pounds in five years--J. W.
DAWSON, “Makers of English Prose.”
(1946)