Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
long evil strange
I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.
lying evil coffins
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
years evil balance
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
years evil lines
Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .
evil devil firsts
The devil was the first democrat
evil literature mystery
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
dislike draw general last literary men praised
In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
love loves others scholars-and-scholarship woman
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
fate flow inward liver small
Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow
convert five four glad greater process prove sort though
I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
holiness lately miracles shall since understand
I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
appearing avoid best rate sad-love
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
fitzgerald shall tavern
Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?
admire art
Not to admire is all the art I know.