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
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...sweethearts of glory. 'Tis lads who are unafraid! Ferryman, ho! LUCIEN BOYEH — La Maison du Passeur. a WALKER @ . BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. 14 Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.... | |
| Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...lives to sing them very ill. The mock dedication concluded, the epic begins by announcing its hero: 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'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him,... | |
| Laurence A. Rickels - 1988 - 388 pages
...narrative. The first verse of canto 1 already contains an aesthetic plan: I want a hero, an uncomman want, When every year and month sends forth a new...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 in... | |
| 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...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 in... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...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,... | |
| 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...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 in... | |
| 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... | |
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