 | Alfred George Gardiner - 1921 - 302 pages
...the world was on the boil as it is now, Byron expressed what we are feeling to-day very accurately : I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. The truth, I suppose, is contained in the old saying that " no man is a hero to his valet." To be a... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1922 - 650 pages
...go back for a moment to the example with which we started. You remember how "Don Juan" opens — " I want a hero ; an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one." How truly might we echo that in these days ! Then follows a list of eminent men of action of Byron's... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1922 - 642 pages
...back for a moment to the example with which we started. You rememlKjr how " Don Juan " opens — " I want a hero; an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one." 'How truly might we echo that in these days ! Then follows a list of eminent men of action of Byron's... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...sweethearts of glory. 'Tis lads who are unafraid! Ferryman, ho! LUCIEN BOYEH — La Maison du Passeur. a WALKER @ . BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. 14 Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.... | |
 | Harry Levin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 566 pages
...to the nobly born. The hero, originally a person of the highest rank, could be a man of the people. I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. Byron opened his mock-epic, Don Juan, by voicing the reiterated demand of the age. It was an age of... | |
 | Bernard G. Beatty - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1985 - 264 pages
...should not neglect the most obvious of Don Juan 's many precedents. It is announced in the first stanza: I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the Pantomine Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time (1,1) Which version of the old play Byron had seen... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...VENICE, September 16, 1818. I. I лля т a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month senda forth a new one. Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers be is not the trne one : Of roch u these I should not care to vaunt, 111 therefore take our ancient... | |
 | Thomas Rommel - Don Juan (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 420 pages
...French Boyd, Byron's DON JUAN. A Crilical Study. (New York: The Humanities Press, 1958), 22. <C l/S 1> I want a hero, an uncommon want, When every year and...The age discovers he is not the true one. Of such äs these I should not care to vaunt; I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan. We all have... | |
 | John C. Courtney - History - 1995 - 502 pages
...dedicated to my parents and my wife, but it has in fact been written with my whole family in mind. I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. Byron, Donjuán i Introduction Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people... | |
 | Vladimir Golstein - Heroes in literature - 1998 - 266 pages
...give in to reason. Chapter One Heroism and Individualism: The Russian Context MISREADINGS OF HEROISM "I want a hero: an uncommon want / When every year and month sends forth a new one." So declared Byron in his immortal satire Don Juan. This statement from the creator of what later became... | |
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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... 
