Middlemarch vocabulary

I did not ride him again for some days, and when I did, I found him steeped in Byronic gloom.

F. Anstey. The Talking Horse And Other Tales (1892)

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"Oh, he's a dangerous young sprig, that Mr. Ladislaw," said Mrs. Cadwallader, "with his opera songs and his ready tongue. A sort of Byronic hero—an amorous conspirator, it strikes me. And Thomas Aquinas is not fond of him. I could see that, the day the picture was brought."

George Eliot. Middlemarch