“Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.”

—  George Gordon Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 326.

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

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