Lord Byron on Character
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“Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.”
“With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.”
“So well she acted all and every part By turns—with that vivacious versatility, Which many people take for want of heart. They err—'tis merely what is call'd mobility, A thing of temperament and not of art, Though seeming so, from its supposed facility; And false—though true; for surely they're sincerest Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest.”