MANFREDO
Porque não pude contrafazer a minha natureza... porque para mandar é
preciso obedecer... lisonjear... pedir... espreitar as ocasiões... intr… - Lord Byron
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MANFREDO Porque não pude contrafazer a minha natureza... porque para mandar é preciso obedecer... lisonjear... pedir... espreitar as ocasiões... intrometer-se em toda parte... ser uma mentira viva... é assim que deve proceder quem quer ser poderoso entre os seres abjetos de que se compõe a generalidade dos homens: eu, eu não me dignei de fazer parte de um rebanho de lobos... embora como chefe. O leão é só, e eu sou como o leão.
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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Birth Name:
George Gordon Byron
Alternative Names:
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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Noel Byron
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George Gordon Byron Lord
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George Gordon Byron, 6th Lord Byron
LUCIFER: I pity thee who lovest what must perish. CAIN: And I thee who lov'st nothing
O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 22 Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limit to their sway,— Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.
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Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine — A sad, sour, sober beverage — by time Is sharpen’d from its high celestial flavour Down to a very homely household savour.
