 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 - 1893 - 368 pages
...cant, The age discovers he is not the true one ; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I' 11 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We...pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, Evil... | |
 | Sambhu Chandra Mookerjee, Francis Henry Skrine - 1895 - 524 pages
...goodness even in the native camp to the hideousness * 1 want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying...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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...ultra-Julian ? VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year qual ? — H Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, 10... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...ultra-Julian ? VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year ion is a sin, that by degrees Becomes exceeding tedious...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 pages
...? ' ; VENICE, September 16, 1818. CANTO THE FIRST I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year s 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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 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 —...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 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 —...pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time.' So Casti :— ' Ma voi piu volte, 0 Donne mie, vedeste Sovra le scene pubbliche o private Di don Giovan... | |
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