Example sentences for: byron

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  • Of Rome’s countless inspirational churches and palazzos, it is the Colosseum — what Byron called “the gladiator’s bloody circus”—that is the symbol of the city’s eternity.

  • More quintessentially Roman, on nearby Via Condotti, is the city’s oldest coffee house, the 18th-century Caffè Greco — popular, as you’ll see from pictures, busts, and autographs, with Goethe, Byron, Baudelaire, Liszt, Casanova, and Fellini.

  • When the poet Byron visited it in 1809, he found that what had once been the glittering center of the civilized world now had a population of only about 5,000 souls.

  • Byron, who led the Greek armed forces in their fight for independence against the Ottoman Turks in 1824, is considered a national hero in Greece.

  • (For more on Byron, visit this site which includes a portrait gallery and links to other poets' sites.)


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