If people are to live, why die? And are our carcasses worth raising? I hope, if mine is, I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind in the squeeze into Paradise.
— Lord Byron Modern

Romantic poet

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Letter, unknown recipient

Date / Period

c. 1810s-1820s

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Shocking

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