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 3by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Full view - About this book
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 pages
...creed's a task grown quite Hercu1s it not so, my Tory, Ultra-Julian ? • VENICE, Stfttmttr 16, 1818. I. soar, High as thine own in days of yore. When man...might have led Thy sons to deeds sublime, Now crawl I should not care to vaunt, 111 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him,... | |
| 260 pages
...producing and enjoying the epic poet of the period? Does fancy hear an echo of the Byronic muse ? ' ' I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one." Perhaps, however, though there be no scarcity of material, the essential qualities of that material... | |
| John Hill (novelist.) - 1882 - 270 pages
...and cried for a long time. And this was the end of Paul Felix. CHAPTER III. EAVE LODGE, WINTERDALE. ' I want a hero ; an uncommon want When every year and month sends forth a new one.' BYRON. IN a county in the south of England, the name of which is immaterial — say Dampshire or Dirtshire... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...in whose heurt One passion stands for all, the most indulged. a. BAILEY— f'esius. Proem. Line 114. I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. b. BÏKON— Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...passion stands for all, the most indulged. a. BAILEY — Festus. Proem. Line 114. I want n hero: tin uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. b. BÏIION -- Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 284 pages
...Count Julian, but to Gibbon's hero, vulgarly yclept " The Apostate." 6. DON JUAN. Canto tbe fffrst. i. 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 him,... | |
| 1877 - 720 pages
...for heroes in this as in every other line of excellence. The cynical historian of Don Juan says — " Want a hero ! An uncommon want. When every year and...cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers that he's not the true one." A serious reflection for any group of hero- worshippers at all in doubt... | |
| George Rose Emerson - 188? - 196 pages
...252462B T1LDKN K1! : .lATiONS II 1943 L PREFACE. IN the opening verse of " Don Juan," Byron wrote : " I want a hero ; an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one." There are indeed many to whom the title is given on the ground of some acts of brilliant courage or... | |
| 1887 - 668 pages
...further from the Dark Ages. EKNEST H. CKOSBT. HEROES TO ORDER. " I want a hero : an uncommon want Where every year and month sends forth a new one, Till,...discovers he is not the true one ; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt ! " —Don Juan, Canto 1. THE last half of the present century has developed... | |
| Walter Moxon - 1887 - 276 pages
...for heroes in this as in every other line of excellence. The cynical historian of Don Juan says — " I want a hero ! An uncommon want, When every year...cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers that he's not the true one. " * Being the Annual Address delivered before the Hunterian Society in... | |
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