 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...hath dug it deeper for thy son In mine !— The race of Siegendorf is past! DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIEST. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloymg the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; Of such as these I should... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...dug it deeper for thy son I In mine ! -The race of Sicgendorf is pa^i ! DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIEST. r cold and low. XXVIII. Last noon heheld them full of lusty life, Last ev new.one. Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; Of... | |
 | 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 111 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him, In the pantomime. Sent to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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...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 the pantomime, Sent to... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
