 | 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 '11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to... | |
 | 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 s. But to my tale of Laura, — for I find Digression...may the reader too displease — The gentle reader, I '11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to... | |
 | 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 rum's champion, and the people's chief — Her new-born...of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place I '11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime,^ Sent... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ' pantomime,3 Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. 5 Brave men were living before Agamemnon And since,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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... 
