...per la causa della Libertà contro la tirannide, risulta chiaramente da un passo del Don Giovanni: « And I will war, at least in words (and — should My chance so happen) deedes, with ali who war With Thought; and of Thought's foes by far most rude, Tyrants and sycophants...

...of his death have clouded in the biographies the glory of the greater performance. He had written : And I will war, at least in words (and — should...most rude Tyrants and sycophants have been and are, 1 know not who may conquer : if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain,...

...and "had declared formal war against it in words." Carlyle refers to a particular moment in Don Juan: "And I will war, at least in words (and— should...rude, / Tyrants and Sycophants have been and are" (1x.24). Characteristically, Carlyle reduces Byron's war against "Tyrants and Sycophants" to one against...

...139). Of course, Byron had a strong sense of his own poetic militancy, describing himself as one who 'will war, at least in words (and — should | My chance so happen — deeds)' (IX. 24)^ but in Don Juan he uses the siege metaphor to image the power of his own poetic performance...

...canto continues Byron increasingly digresses from the love and war adventures of Juan, and declaims "I will war, at least in words (and— should / My...happen— deeds), with all who war / With Thought .../... Tyrants / ... my plain, sworn, downright detestation / Of every despotism in every nation."48...

...has ambitions of epic scope: it is a poem designed to lend its weight to the overthrow of tyranny: And I will war at least in words (and - should My...so happen - deeds) with all who war With Thought. (IX, 24) I want not just to accept that claim but to construe it rather literally - to argue that one...