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Quotes from Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin — Lord Byron

1788–1824 England

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A great poet belongs to no country; his works are public property, and his Memoirs the inheritance of the public.

Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin (1832)

Who knows whether, when a comet shall approach this globe to destroy it, as it often has been and will be destroyed, men will not tear rocks from their foundations by means of steam, and hurl mountains, as the giants are said to have done, against the flaming mass?

Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin (1832)

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