Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I (1819)

Some women use their tongues—she look’d a lecture,   Each eye a sermon, and her brow a homily, An all-in-all sufficient self-director,   Like the lamented late Sir Samuel Romilly, The Law’s expounder, and the State’s corrector,   Whose suicide was almost an anomaly— One sad example more, that “All is vanity” (The jury brought their verdict in “Insanity”).

— Lord Byron on Samuel Romilly

What It Means

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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.