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According to Goethe, Byron’s poetical power eclipsed all other mortals, and he was not held back by petty morality, being possessed of a virtue of which the bourgeoisie had no conception.

Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education

Poetry

Sadie Lewandowski • 8 cards

Paradise Lost

Noelle Joubert • 2 cards

Dead poets society

Lone Elvira Fernandez • 2 cards

Filippo, Duke of Milan, who slew his wife and painted her lips with a scarlet poison that her lover might suck death from the dead thing he fondled;

Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray

These cellar dents, like deserted fox burrows, old holes, are all that is left where once were the stir and bustle of human life, and “fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,” in some form and dialect or other were by turns discussed.

Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)

“Father’s got the sack from the water–works For smoking of his old cherry–briar; Father’s got the sack from the water–works ‘Cos he might set the water–works on fire.”

G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]

FER. Sir, she is mortal; But by immortal Providence she ’s mine:

William Shakespeare • The Tempest (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away!