article_snippet.sent: The poet Byron — who was every bit as proud of The poet Byron — who was every bit as proud of his phenomenal swimming prowess as his verses — called the experience a ‘buoyancy of spirits I never feel on any other occasion’ phenomenal swimming prowess as The poet Byron — who was every bit as proud of his phenomenal swimming prowess as his verses — called the experience a ‘buoyancy of spirits I never feel on any other occasion’ verses
article_snippet.sent: I don’t have to swim the four-mile-long Hellespont between Asia and Europe as The poet Byron — who was every bit as proud of his phenomenal swimming prowess as his verses — called the experience a ‘buoyancy of spirits I never feel on any other occasion
article_snippet.sent: ’ did to know what The poet Byron — who was every bit as proud of his phenomenal swimming prowess as his verses — called the experience a ‘buoyancy of spirits I never feel on any other occasion’ meant.
article_snippet.sent: I prefer the thoughts of novelist Jane Austen, so much more restrained, who simply declared swimming ‘delightful’.
article_snippet.sent: novelist Jane Austen found the combination of sea air and sea water ‘nearly infallible’ and ‘a match for every disorder’.
article_snippet.sent: Poet Lord Byron (left) was a prodigious swimmer, once crossing the four-mile Hellespont from Asia to Europe, while Jane Austen praised the sea air and water as 'a match for every disorder'