“Patience! Hence—that word was made
For brutes of burthen, not for birds of prey;
Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine,—
I am not of thine order.”

Act II, scene i.
Manfred (1817)

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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