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
| James Mandrell - 2010 - 332 pages
...Prologue, he introduces his protagonist and then he reviews other possible candidates for the role: 1 I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the Pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time. 2 Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand,... | |
| George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...VENICE, September 16, 1818. I. I лля т a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month senda forth a new one. Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers be is not the trne one : Of roch u these I should not care to vaunt, 111 therefore take our ancient... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...To thank his tale, he wonder'd not, The king had been an hour asleep. 1818 1819 Don Juan CANTO 1 1 I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...friend 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,... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...the cannon's opening roar! From DON JUAN From CANTO I I I want a hero: an uncommon want, When everv' year and month sends forth a new one. Till, after...Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. II Vemon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand,... | |
| Thomas Rommel - 1995 - 420 pages
...French Boyd, Byron's DON JUAN. A Crilical Study. (New York: The Humanities Press, 1958), 22. <C l/S 1> I want a hero, an uncommon want, When every year and...The age discovers he is not the true one. Of such äs these I should not care to vaunt; I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan. We all have... | |
| John C. Courtney - 1995 - 502 pages
...dedicated to my parents and my wife, but it has in fact been written with my whole family in mind. I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. Byron, Donjuán i Introduction Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people... | |
| Philip Hobsbaum - 1996 - 220 pages
...appears to be an easy colloquialism. It is done partly by a kind of wild rhyming akin to pararhyme: I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...friend Don Juan We all have seen him in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. Ottava rima was certainly in the air. Leigh Hunt (1784—1859)... | |
| Vladimir Golstein - 1998 - 266 pages
...give in to reason. Chapter One Heroism and Individualism: The Russian Context MISREADINGS OF HEROISM "I want a hero: an uncommon want / When every year and month sends forth a new one." So declared Byron in his immortal satire Don Juan. This statement from the creator of what later became... | |
| Robert C. Solomon - 1999 - 172 pages
...the customer, there was nothing else we could do, nothing.") Byron, in his epic poem Don Juan, wrote, "I want a hero, an uncommon want / When every year and month sends forth a new one." We understand all too easily the nature of that complaint. The business world is filled with temporary... | |
| Rick Wallach - 2000 - 420 pages
...Wolf. Charles Bailey The last stage of the hero's evolution: Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the Plain I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. (Byron, Don Juan, Canto the First lines 1—4) In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering... | |
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