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George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788–1824) (continued)

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Oh “darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!” 1
As some one somewhere sings about the sky.

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 110.

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There ’s not a sea the passenger e’er pukes in,
Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 5.

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But all have prices,
From crowns to kicks, according to their vices. 2

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 27.

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And puts himself upon his good behaviour.

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 47.

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That all-softening, overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul,—the dinner bell.

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 49.

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The women pardon’d all except her face.

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 113.

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Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,
Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.

Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 7.

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A “strange coincidence,” to use a phrase
By which such things are settled nowadays.

Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 78.

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The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

Don Juan. Canto viii. Stanza 3.

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Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt
In the despatch: I knew a man whose loss
Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose.

Don Juan. Canto viii. Stanza 18.

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What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger
Is woman!

Don Juan. Canto ix. Stanza 64.

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And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won’t flatter.

Don Juan. Canto x. Stanza 24.

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Oh for a forty-parson power!

Don Juan. Canto x. Stanza 34.

Note 1.
See Southey, Quotation 18. [back]

Note 2.
See Robert Walpole, Quotation 2. [back]