 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...  Don Juan, with notes. Complete ed - Seite 9von George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 and month sends...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 Seiten
...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 month sends...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 Seiten
...: .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... | |
 | 1887 - 668 Seiten
...further from the Dark Ages. EKNEST H. CKOSBT. 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 ! " —Don Juan, Canto 1. THE last half of the present century has developed an extraordinary mania... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 Seiten
...grown quite Hercu1s it not so, my Tory, Ultra-Julian ? • VENICE, Septtmba-Л, 1818. I WANT a hero : te, or aught, — Passion or feeling, purpose, grief, or zeal, — ¡n the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 Seiten
...greatly venerate our recent glories, WANTED— A HERO. (DON JUAN, Canto i. Stanzas 1-5.) I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends...time, Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, Evil and good, have had their tithe of talk, And... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 Seiten
...they were not owing to the Tories WANTED —A HERO. (DON JUAN, Canto i. Stanzas iJ.) I WANT a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends...one ; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I' 11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1893 - 368 Seiten
...cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I' 11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We...time. Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, Evil and good, have had their tithe of talk, And... | |
 | Sambhu Chandra Mookerjee, Francis Henry Skrine - 1895 - 524 Seiten
...— there ought to be a foil of goodness even in the native camp to the hideousness * 1 want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. BYRON. of its 'chief the Nana. The English public, I apprehend, will not at this late hour appreciate... | |
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