Byron
[bahy-ruh n]
- George Gordon, Lord6th Baron Byron, 1788–1824, English poet.
- a male given name.
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This is a place where Byron York is a celebrity, Andrew Breitbart a fallen hero, and Ronald Reagan a God.
Like all Western interventionists, Byron made his share of miscalculations and blunders.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and SavvyMichael Weiss
February 16, 2014
Hardly an apologist for Vienna, Byron still found these tracts too extreme and in need of censoring.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and SavvyMichael Weiss
February 16, 2014
That Byron himself had been raised a Scotsman and a Calvinist placed him from birth slightly askew from the ruling British elite.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and SavvyMichael Weiss
February 16, 2014
Exile had also given Byron his first taste of insurrection and intrigue.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and SavvyMichael Weiss
February 16, 2014
Historical Examples
Byron was a symbolic figure, but his relations were to the passion of his age and its weariness of passion.
De ProfundisOscar Wilde
Dr. Waddell prefers him to Cowper and Byron as a letter-writer.
The Letters of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
Neither Gray, nor Cowper, nor Byron commanded so wide a circle.
The Letters of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
Byron was fond of cats: in his establishment at Ravenna he had five of them.
Concerning CatsHelen M. Winslow
One of his legs was shorter than the other, as was the case with Byron.
A Hero of Our TimeM. Y. Lermontov
Byron
- George Gordon, 6th Baron. 1788–1824, British Romantic poet, noted also for his passionate and disastrous love affairs. His major works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18), and Don Juan (1819–24). He spent much of his life abroad and died while fighting for Greek independence
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Byron
[bī′rən]
- British mathematician who collaborated with Charles Babbage in the development of the analytical engine, an early computer. Byron's most important contribution was the compilation of detailed notations about how the machine could be programmed.
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