John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5626 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5626 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; 1 and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 72. |
| Note 1. I am a part of all that I have met.—Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses. [back] |