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‘Byron had prodigious facility of composition […] after going home, he would throw off sixty or eighty verses, which he would send to press next morning’

‘Byron always had the weakness of wishing to be thought much worse than he really was'

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2020-07-30

'When I look in upon [my bookseller], he is generally reading, a bad symptom in a bookseller'- 16/11/1823

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2020-02-16

Finding likenesses of really is the gift that keeps on giving... This is from 's Key to Partridge's 'The Fine Arts Commissioners, 1846'. He looks better (blurrier!) in the finished work: https://t.co/fOoUPPcoLN

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2019-03-07