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 - 1870 - 768 pages
...creed's a task grown quite Hercu1s it not so, my Tory, Ultra-Julian?» VENICE, :,<f:tmltr 16, i8i& lid front. XLII. Morn dawns; and with it stem Albania's hills, Dark Suli's rocks, Tffl. after cloying the gazettes with cant. The age discovers he is not the true one : Of such as these... | |
| 1872 - 380 pages
...foigenbe Variante uinwanbetn lann: I want a cannon, an uncommon want, When every year and month brings forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers it is not the true one. Wabrenb Sngtanb, fügen »ir, nod) immer паф bem fräftigften ®е?фи||е... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 404 pages
...traitor Count Julian, buf to Gibbon's hero, vulgarly yclept " The Apostate." DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIEST. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time.1 Vernon,2 the butcher Cumberland,3 Wolfe,4 Hawke,5 Prince... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 368 pages
...Gibbon's hero, vnlgarly yclept " The Apostate." DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIKST. ,, I WANT a hero : an nncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new...gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the trne one • Of snch as these I shonld not care to vannt, I'll therefore take onr aneient friend Don... | |
| LORD BYRON - 1875 - 418 pages
........................ «OJ XVI ....................... 823 DON JUAN. CANTO I. I WANT a hero: an nncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes wi'Ji cant The age discovers lie is not the trne one Of snch as these I shonld not care to vannl. I'll... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 pages
...GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS CHARLES D1CKENS AND EVANS,' CKVSTAL PALACE PRESS. DON JUAN. Cani<r lhe Jfir0t. I WANT a hero ; an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new 0112, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; Of such... | |
| 1877 - 734 pages
...cynical historian of Don Juan says — " Want a hero ! An uncommon want, When every year and month Bends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant. The age discovers that he's not the true one.*' Л serious reflection for any group of hero- worshippers at all in doubt... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...hath dug it deeper for thy son In mine !— The race of Siegendorf is past! DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIEST. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloymg the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; Of such as these I should... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...dug it deeper for thy son I In mine ! -The race of Sicgendorf is pa^i ! DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIEST. r cold and low. XXVIII. Last noon heheld them full of lusty life, Last ev new.one. Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; Of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 326 pages
...glories, And wish they were not owing to the Tories. WANTED— A HERO. (DON JUAN, Canto i. Stanzas 1-5.) I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time, Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand,... | |
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