Epigram. From the French of RulhièRes

IF for silver, or for gold,
You could melt ten thousand pimples
Into half a dozen dimples,
Then your face we might behold,
Looking, doubtless, much more snugly,
Yet even _then_ 'twould be damned ugly.

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Leading figure of the Romantic movement, celebrated for Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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