Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 72.
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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.
— Lord Byron on Cities
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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.
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.
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