“Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”

— George Gordon Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 51.

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

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“Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”