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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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With Byron in Italy: Being a Selection of the Poems and Letter of Lord Byron ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1906 - 488 pages
...South America, but am fluctuating between it and Greece. FROM "DON JUAN," CANTO I WANTED — A HERO I I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; 1 William Edward West (1788-1857) went to Italy in 1819 to study art. The artist wrote to his father...
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With Byron in Italy: A Selection of the Poems and Letters of Lord Byron ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 486 pages
...South America, but am fluctuating between it and Greece. FEOM "DON JUAN," CANTO I WANTED — A HERO I I WANT a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; 1 William Edward West (1788-1857) went to Italy in 1819 to study art. The artist wrote to Ms father...
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Psychology: A New System, Based on the Study of the Fundamental ..., Volume 1

Arthur Lynch - 1912 - 416 pages
...read the poem. The opening is recalled thus : I want a hero, an uncommon want, Since every day brings forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers that he's not the true one. . . . my old friend, Juan. The verse really runs : I want a hero : an uncommon...
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Juliusz Słowacki: jego żywot i dzieła na tle wspólczesnej epoki, Volume 2

Tadeusz Grabowski - 1912 - 346 pages
...zdolnem wydać lepszego bohatera, Whan every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloing the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one3'). Słowacki wierzył w swego, nie miał w duszy śladów byronizmu, nie drwił ze swej siedmiorakiej...
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English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement

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 ' I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan— We all have seen him,...
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Medical Pickwick, Volume 4

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...
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The Scottish Review, Volume 26

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,...
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Windfalls

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...
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Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 22

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...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 22

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...
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