 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
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...One passion stands for all, the most indulged. y. BAILEY — Festits. Proem. L. 114. I want a hero : . ANGLING. A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and z. BYRON— Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1896 - 440 Seiten
...land! Hail ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and died in freedom's cause." " I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one." EVENTS IN THE WEST, 1862. THE Civil War in the east ended as it began, with the two great armies almost... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 654 Seiten
...yclept " The Apostate." .-: I -• •• ••;' I : DON JUAN. CANTO THE FIRST.1 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,9 Sent... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 652 Seiten
...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— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, 2 Sent to the Devil somewhat ere his time. 1. [Begun at Venice, September 6 ; finished November 1,... | |
 | Oskar Reihmann - 1904 - 78 Seiten
...Shadwells Libertine, and have been very successful whenever performed. 2) Byrons „Don Juan", Canto I: „I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him, in the pantomime, I only lay hold on this Occasion to publish to the World your great Favours, and the gratefnl Acknowledgement... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 Seiten
...Herculean; Is it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian ? VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST I WANT a hero : ble, and make himself Almost our equal ? — H Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, 10... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 Seiten
...Herculean; la it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian ? VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST I WANT a hero : e of Laura, — for I find Digression is a sin, that...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 - 1110 Seiten
...it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian ? ' ; VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST I WANT a hero : ry. But we should not shut our eyes to the 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 - 1098 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 332 Seiten
...nearest to Byron's poem is the one entitled La Diavolessa (Novella iv). This suggested to him his hero. I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan —...pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. SoCasti: Ma voi piu volte, O Donne mie, vedeste Sovra le scene pubbliche e private Di don Giovan le... | |
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