The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.
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Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
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Birth: | 21st November, 1787 |
Death: | 5th October, 1874 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Poet |
Bryan Waller Procter was an English poet. Born at Leeds, Yorkshire, he was educated at Harrow School, where he had for contemporaries Lord Byron and Robert Peel. On leaving school he was placed in the office of a solicitor at Calne, Wiltshire, remaining there until about 1807, when he returned to London to study law. By the death of his father in 1816 he became possessed of a small property, and soon after entered into partnership with a solicitor; but in 1820 the partnership was dissolved, and he began to write under the pseudonym of Barry Cornwall.
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