 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 Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...creed's a task grown quite Herculean : Is it not so, my Tory, Ultra- Julian ?2 From CANTO I 1818 1819 1 e qV ' pantomime,3 Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. 5 Brave men were living before Agamemnon And since,... | |
 | 1918 - 502 pages
...deed's achieved. Determined, dared and done. M v m Lg V S, >> m л Je P fïtckwick. INVULNERABLE HEROES "I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month »ends forth a new one. Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the... | |
 | 1895 - 440 pages
...heroes in his day may he said of poets in our own — ' Every year and month sends forth a new one, And, after cloying the Gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one.' Scarcely indeed does there appear a new number of The Yellow Book — that extraordinary production,... | |
 | Alfred George Gardiner - 1921 - 302 pages
...the world was on the boil as it is now, Byron expressed what we are feeling to-day very accurately : I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. The truth, I suppose, is contained in the old saying that " no man is a hero to his valet." To be a... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1922 - 642 pages
...back for a moment to the example with which we started. You rememlKjr how " Don Juan " opens — " I want a hero; an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one." 'How truly might we echo that in these days ! Then follows a list of eminent men of action of Byron's... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1922 - 650 pages
...go back for a moment to the example with which we started. You remember how "Don Juan" opens — " I want a hero ; an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one." How truly might we echo that in these days ! Then follows a list of eminent men of action of Byron's... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...sweethearts of glory. 'Tis lads who are unafraid! Ferryman, ho! LUCIEN BOYEH — La Maison du Passeur. a WALKER @ . BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. 14 Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.... | |
 | Samuel Claggett Chew - 1924 - 442 pages
...definite idea of burlesquing the Spanish legend of Don Juan is an open question. Wanting a hero, he takes our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the Devil somewhat ere his time.1 But as the poem grew under his hand into the great satiric... | |
 | Bernard G. Beatty - 1985 - 264 pages
...should not neglect the most obvious of Don Juan 's many precedents. It is announced in the first stanza: I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the Pantomine Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time (1,1) Which version of the old play Byron had seen... | |
 | Laurence A. Rickels - 1988 - 388 pages
...narrative. The first verse of canto 1 already contains an aesthetic plan: I want a hero, an uncomman want, When every year and month sends forth a new...friend Don Juan We all have seen him in the pantomime Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time.31 The writer acts as if he is seeking a hero because he wants... | |
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