John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5578 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5578 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue’s name, let Crabbe attest,— Though Nature’s sternest painter, yet the best. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 839. |