Lord Byron, letter to Thomas Moore (11 April 1817), in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life, by Thomas Moore (1830), p. 329
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That harmonious plagiary and miserable flatterer, whose cursed hexameters were drilled into me at Harrow.
— Lord Byron on Virgil
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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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