I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one: Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend... The works of ... lord Byron - Page 7by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...uniform of blue and buff: hence the coverings of the Edinburgh Review.] XVI. DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIRST. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...one ; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I '11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — \Ve all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 586 pages
...senseless on the grass. CHAPTER III. " I want a hero:—an uncommon want, When every year and month send forth a new one; Till, after cloying the gazettes...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one >—" BVKOM. IN consequence of the unsteadiness of the father's nerves, the duty of raising Mildred... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 342 pages
...the grass. CHAPTER Ш. •• I want a hero : — an uncommon want, When every year and month send forth a new one ; •Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he ia not the true one."— BYROK. In consequence of the unsteadiness of the father's nerves, the duty... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...bearing haught and high, Whieh eommon spirits fear. Seott's Lord of the lsles, I want a hero: an uneommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after eloying the gazettes with eant, The age diseovers he is not the true one. Byron. Vernon, the buteher... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 512 pages
...sprang upon the head-land. At the same instant, Mildred fell senseless on the grass. CHAPTER III " I want a hero : — an uncommon want. When every year and month send forth a new one; Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant. The age discovers he is not the true... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - 588 pages
...sprang upon the head-land. At the same instant, Mildred fell senseless on the grass. CHAPTER III. -• I want a hero : — an uncommon want, When every year and month send forth a new one ; Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...grown quite Herculean; IB it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian? 1m. CANTO THE FIRST. I. I WAWT a hero i an uncommon want, 'When every year and month sends...Don Juan— We all have seen him in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. Vernon, the Butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, 2 Prince Ferdinand,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1857 - 492 pages
...sprang upon the head-land. At the same instant, Mildred fell senseless on the grass. CHAPTER III * I want a hero : — an uncommon want, When every year and month send forth a new one; 'Till, after cloying tlie gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...hearts have an echo from every voice ! [Kxcunf th< Peasnmry, singing DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIRST. 1819. t of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not...filed* my mind, which thus itself subdued. CXIV. ati have seen him in the pantomime. Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. ir. Vernon. the Butcher... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1891 - 1050 pages
...coming night would enable him to approach. (To be continued.) James Lane Allen. IN MAIDEN MEDITATION. I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. ISS ROSMARY sat gazing at the famous Jean Francois Millet. Her aunt, who, as all the world knows, is... | |
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