 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...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 7by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...quite Herculean; Is it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian ? VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST The world invisible, and make himself Almost our equal ? — Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. H Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1905 - 846 pages
...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 — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time.' So Casti :— ' Ma voi piu volte, 0 Donne mie, vedeste Sovra... | |
 | John Churton Collins - American poetry - 1905 - 332 pages
...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 — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. SoCasti: Ma voi piu volte, O Donne mie, vedeste Sovra le scene... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Italy - 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 - English letters - 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 - Psychology - 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 - Polish literature - 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... | |
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