Byron

Famous quotes containing the word byron:

    The mountains look on Marathon—
    And Marathon looks on the sea;
    And musing there an hour alone,
    I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
    For standing on the Persians’ grave,
    I could not deem myself a slave.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    But who, alas! can love, and then be wise?
    Not that remorse did not oppose temptation;
    A little still she strove, and much repented,
    And whispering ‘I will ne’er consent’Mconsented.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)