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Lord Byron
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About Lord Byron
George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Lord ByronIf we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.