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An idiosyncratic history beginning in 1812 and ending in 1822. Be good to each other, it can always get worse.
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We have been burning the bodies of Shelley and Williams on the sea-shore, to render them fit for removal and regular interment.

— Lord Byron, August 27 1822.

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We saw the sun set on the flat land of lakes to the north, and gild with a violet light the glaciers of the Jungfrau and the Eighers, and all of the other gigantic forms which composed the scene behind us.

— John Cam Hobhouse, August 19 1822.

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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—

— Charles Heyer Bell, May 21 1822.

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False rumours spread through Pisa that Lord Byron and all his servants, with four English gentlemen, were taken last night after a desperate resistance, and that forty brace of pistols, stilettos and other arms were discovered at Byron’s villa.

— March 28 1822.

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ARIEL sings

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell

— SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest.

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‘Nothing of us but what must suffer a sea-change.’

— Mary Shelley, February 14 1822.

Mary quotes a line from The Tempest.

Trelawny had called with news of building Shelley’s new boat, saying, “Oh! we must all embark, all live aboard; we will all ‘suffer a sea-change.”

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The time that was, is, and will be, presses upon you, and, standing the centre of a moving circle, you “slide giddily as the world reels.”

— Mary Shelley, February 7 1822.

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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.

— John Adams, December 27 1821.

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Read [Scott’s] “Ivanhoe.”

— Mary Shelley, December 12 1821.

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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?

— Lord Byron, November 23 1821.

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