 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...  Lacon: or, Many things in few words - Page 4by Charles Caleb Colton - 1823Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 242 pages
...1819. DON JUAN. CANTO I. fcfefc DON JUAN. CANTO I. I. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, Evil and good, have had their tithe of talk, And filTd their sign-posts then,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...communia 'ilicere." HOR. Jtyiiit ad risen:. CANTO I. I. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the pantomime n. Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppcl, Howe,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 486 pages
...direre. » Hon. Ep'st. ad Pison. DON JUAN. CANTO I. 1 WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes w^th cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; Of sueh as these I should not care to vaunt,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...hell," and all will be right. DON JUAN. CANTO I. L I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, Evil and good have had their tithe of talk, And fill'd their sign-posts then,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...Hor. Epist. ad Pium. .* DON JUAN. CANTO I. I. I WANT a hero: an uncommon want, • When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these 1 should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in... | |
 | George Clinton - 1825 - 826 pages
...is the abrupt beginning of this singular poem : I want a lit io : an uncommon want, AVhen every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time. It proceeds thus : In Seville was he born— a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women — he Who... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...dicerc.» HOR. Epist. ad Pison. DON JUAN. CANTO I. l. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...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 the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
..."Difficile est propric communia diccre. " HORACE. CANTO I. I WATT a hero: an uncommon want. When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...Pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time. Vcrnon, the butcher .Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawkc, Prince Ferdinand, Granhy, Kurgoync, Kcppel, Howe, I... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...cst proprie commnnia dicere. " HOB. ICE. CANTO 1. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...discovers he is not the true one ; Of such as these 1 should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan ; We all have seen him... | |
 | 1826 - 488 pages
...peace. CHOICE OF A HERO. ' I want a hero ; an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth anew one ; Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one.' Thus exclaimed the immortal Byron, and scarcely had he uttered the words than his imagination had revelled... | |
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