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Quotes from Moore's Life of Lord Byron', The Edinburgh Review — Thomas Babington Macaulay

1800–1859 England

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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Moore's Life of Lord Byron', The Edinburgh Review (1830)

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Moore's Life of Lord Byron', The Edinburgh Review (1830)

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.

Moore's Life of Lord Byron', The Edinburgh Review (1830)

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