Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 42

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane.

— Lord Byron on Hell

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About Lord Byron

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.