"Lord Byron makes man after his own image, woman after his own heart; the one is a capricious tyrant, the other a yielding slave."
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William Hazlitt, "Lord Byron," The Spirit of the Age (1825).
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Lord Byron
1812 – 1818
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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