Lord Byron is about five feet nine or ten inches high, rather stoutly built, sharp expressive eyes (not very large but projecting) between the colour of light blue and grey—
In all governments there is an eternal struggle in every individual to rise above somebody or other or to depress somebody or other who is above him to his own level or to a degree below him.
Will not my life (it is egotism but you know this is true of all men who have had a name even if they survive it) be given in a false and unfair point of view by others?
I can drink, and bear a good deal of wine (as you may recollect in England); but it don’t exhilarate—it makes me savage and suspicious, and even quarrelsome.
Laudanum has a similar effect; but I can take much of it without any effect at all.