"That harmonious plagiary and miserable flatterer, whose cursed hexameters were drilled into me at Harrow."
— Virgil

January 1, 1970

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Lord Byron, letter to Thomas Moore (11 April 1817), in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life, by Thomas Moore (1830), p. 329