As our actual present world ... shows itself more clearly--our world of an aristocracy materialised and null, a middle-class purbl...ind and hideous, a lower class crude and brutal--we shall turn our eyes again, and to more purpose, upon this passionate and dauntless soldier of a forlorn hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What helps it now, that Byron bore, With haughty scorn which mock'd the smart,... Through Europe to the Aetolian shore The pageant of his bleeding heart? That thousands counted every groan, And Europe made his woe her own?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd... To its idolatries a patient knee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful a...nd dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Envy has blackened every page of his history.... The future, in its justice, will number him among those men whom passions and an ...excess of activity have condemned to unhappiness, through the gift of genius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, a...nd disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You speak of Lord Byron and me--there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees--I describe what I imagine. M...ine is the hardest task.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »