Crossword-Solution: BYRON 5 letters, 66 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Ada Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s) would almost certainly blanch at the use to which her name has latterly been put; the kindest thing that has been said about it is that there is probably a good small language screaming to get out from inside its vast, {elephantine} bulk.

That white face flung up to heaven, clean-shaven and so unnaturally young, like Byron with a Roman nose, those black curls already grizzled--he had seen the thousand public portraits of Sir Claude Champion.

The name is also retained for a private residence on the site of an abbey; as, Newstead Abbey, the residence of Lord Byron.

The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger "You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?"--Byron.

Ill-fated, impious race! That blasphem’d the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it,--no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Mark’d with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau!” It was these lines that raised the ire of Byron, who regarded them as an irreverent assault upon his favorite poet, Pope.