Quote#God & Faith
Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the…
Quote byMary Shelley · 1797–1851
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein.
English (original)
Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light and harmony of poetry, seemed to stamp as divine the glories of heaven and earth, whose influences we partook with him.
— Mary Shelley
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