 | North American review - 1887 - 668 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Moxon - Essays - 1887 - 276 pages
...for heroes in this as in every other line of excellence. The cynical historian of Don Juan says — " I want a hero ! An uncommon want, When every year...cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers that he's not the true one. " * Being the Annual Address delivered before the Hunterian Society in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...creed's a task grown quite Hercu1s it not so, my Tory, Ultra-Julian ? • VENICE, Septtmba-Л, 1818. k ¡n the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 pages
...glories, And wish 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...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... | |
 | Sambhu Chandra Mookerjee, Francis Henry Skrine - India - 1895 - 524 pages
...sensational art — 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...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... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. y. BAILEY — Festits. Proem. L. 114. s. Spring. L. 28. 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 - United States - 1896 - 440 pages
...Columbia! happy 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 - 652 pages
...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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 654 pages
...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,9 Sent to the Devil somewhat ere his time. i. [Begun at Venice, September 6 ; finished November... | |
 | Oskar Reihmann - Don Juan - 1904 - 78 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
