Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byron (National Greek)-200 Greek-American florists from various parts...
Died. Gen. Byron R. Pierce, 95, "last surviving General in the Union Army during the Civil War"; at Grand Rapids...
Claire, another Godwin daughter, deliberately got herself into trouble with the notorious Lord Byron. This brought Shelley and the then greater poet into close touch and the rest of the story deals with life in Italy, the death of two of Shelley's children, the platonic affection of Shelley for several beautiful women, his naked appearance before the ladies of his household, the gradual cooling of his relation with Mary, the building of the boat Ariel,? named after...
...later Shelley and his friend were found dead on the beach. His corpse was "terrible to look upon for the face and hands and parts of the body had been eaten away by the fish." Upon a pyre, the last remains of Shelley were cremated in the presence of Byron and some friends...
...intense heat made the atmosphere tremulous and wavy. At the end of three hours the heart, which was unusually big remained unconsumed. The frontal bone of the skull . . . fell off, and the brains literally seethed, bubbled and boiled. . . . Byron could not face the scene. . . . The village children . . . told each other that from these bones, once they had reached England, the dead man would come to life...