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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... "
Don Juan. Cantos i. to v. [by lord Byron]. - Page 3
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823
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The North American Review, Volume 144

1887 - 702 pages
...further from the Dark Ages. ERNEST H. CROSBY. HEROES TO ORDER. " I want a hero : an uncommon want Where every year and month sends forth a new one, Till,...one ; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt I " —Don Juan, Canto 1. THE last half of the present century has developed an extraordinary mania...
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Notes and Queries

1864 - 566 pages
...a land of heroes, to use Byron's words, which I quote from memory — " When every week, at least, sends forth a new one, Till after cloying the gazettes with cant, At last they find that he is not the true one," the old English air, "See the conquering Hero comes,"...
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