Monday, August 14, 2023
Antiquarian Twaddle
M.L. Clarke, Greek Studies in England 1700-1830 (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1945), p. 167 (he = Byron):
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For archaeological studies, however, he had no taste. 'Let's have a swim. I detest antiquarian twaddle', he said to Trelawny, when it was proposed that he should visit the antiquities of Ithaca.4
4 Trelawny, Recollections of the last days of Shelley and Byron (ed. 1923), p. 136.
