 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...creed's a task grown quite Hercu1s it not so, my Tory, Ultra-Julian ? • VENICE, Septtmba-Л, 1818. k I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 pages
...forget, And greatly venerate our recent glories, WANTED— A HERO. (DON JUAN, Canto i. Stanzas 1-5.) 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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 pages
...glories, And wish they were not owing to the Tories WANTED —A HERO. (DON JUAN, Canto i. Stanzas iJ.) I WANT a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...discovers he is not the true one ; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I' 11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him,... | |
 | Sambhu Chandra Mookerjee, Francis Henry Skrine - 1895 - 524 pages
...sensational art — there ought to be a foil of goodness even in the native camp to the hideousness * 1 want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. BYRON. of its 'chief the Nana. The English public, I apprehend, will not at this late hour appreciate... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. y. BAILEY — Festits. Proem. L. 114. s. Spring. L. 28. ANGLING. A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and z. BYRON— Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1896 - 440 pages
...Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and died in freedom's cause." " I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one." EVENTS IN THE WEST, 1862. THE Civil War in the east ended as it began, with the two great armies almost... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...Herculean ; , , Is it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian ? ' ; VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST idealism in poetry. But we should not shut our eyes...concomitant danger and loss. In this soothing absorption I should not care to vaunt, I '11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...quite Herculean; Is it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian ? VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST The world invisible, and make himself Almost our equal ? — I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...quite Herculean; la it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian ? VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST 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 '11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...ultra-Julian ? ~K VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, WEen "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, I '11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him,... | |
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