"Self-tormentor" Quotes from Famous Books
... permitted to take a last farewell of his wife and children in Torricella. Goethe (Conversations, 1874, pp. 264, 265) did not share Eckermann's astonishment that Byron "could dwell so long on this torturing subject." "He was always a self-tormentor, and hence such subjects were ... — The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron |