Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 107.

Sapping a solemn creed with a solemn sneer.

— Lord Byron on Sneer

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Sapping a solemn creed with a solemn sneer." in the context of "Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 107." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Lord Byron

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.