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" 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 the rt. hon. lord Byron - Page 3
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824
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The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 10-11

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1826 - 566 pages
...— Twelfth Night; or W^atyon. Will.' SHAKSPEARE. DON JUAN. CANTO l. L I WANT a hero : an nncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gnzcttes with cant, The age discovers he is not the trne one; Of snch as these I shonld not care to...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 6

1826 - 488 pages
...absurd, and it certainly oughi to be prohibited as a disturber of the public peace. CHOICE OF A HERO. ' I want a hero ; an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth anew one ; Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one.' Thus...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron

George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...bitter than the tongues of serpents. The following is the abrupt beginning of this singular poem : I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new out, Till, after cloying the Gazeltes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such...
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The Roué ...

Samuel Beazley - 1828 - 514 pages
...alive the romance which had been already woven in {he imagination of Agnes. CHAPTER XIV. THE FAUX PAS. I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month scuds forth a new one. Till, after cloymg the Gazette with cant, The age discovers he it not the true...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 5

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...though the con/ of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting. Sterne. V pw)8n [ @ ts B\ c R'1 o X] M :_ B 9 ׉ Y `...g.N ? ̏ xK $ P / eѾ + U } h Qq x G ] Byron. Dun Juan. The primum mobile of England is canl. Id. CANT, s. ) A side, an edge; Goth, and CAN'TER,...
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Including His Suppressed Poems, and Others ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...be hut i' the mouth, too !— SHAKSPHAIIR, Tivetfth Night; or What you Will. DON JUAN. CANTO I. I. 1 WANT a hero : — an uncommon want, When every year...discovers he is not the true one : Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I 'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan; We all have seen him...
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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 15

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...Count Julian, but to Gibbon's hero, vulgarly yclept " The Apostate." DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIRST. r. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...discovers he is not the true one ; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, (') I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen...
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The Two Admirals: A Tale of the Sea, Volume 1

James Fenimore Cooper - 1842 - 484 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; vTill, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the...
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The Two Admirals: A Tale, Volumes 1-2

James Fenimore Cooper - 1843 - 492 pages
...senseless on the grass. CHAPTER ILL ' I want a hero:—an uncommon want, When every year and month send forth a new one; . 'Till, after cloying the gazettes...cant, The age discovers he is not the true one;—" BYRON. IN consequence of the unsteadiness of the father's nerves, the duty of raising Mildred in his...
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Works

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...
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