Lord Byron on Names

“Oh, Amos Cottle!—Phœbus! what a name!”

“He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”

“I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.”

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