Friday, February 21, 2014

Commonplace Book

'The biographer has made a botch of your life - calling your father "a venerable old gentleman", and prattling of "Addison", and "dowager countesses". If that damned fellow was to write my life, I would certainly take his...'

from a letter to Thomas Moore, dated June 9, 1820, in The Letters of Lord Byron

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