 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...  Don Juan. Complete ed., with notes - Page 5by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 240 pages
...JUAN. CANTO 1. I. 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...pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time. II. • Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 244 pages
...friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time. II. Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince...Howe, Evil and good, have had their tithe of talk, And filTd their sign-posts then, like Wellesley now ; Each in their turn like Banquo's monarchs stalk,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...risen:. CANTO I. I. 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...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 - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...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, I'll therefore...our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in th^r«ntomime, -ent to the devil somewhat ere his time. . . Vcrnon, the butcher Cumberland* Wolfe,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...JUAN. CANTO I. L 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...pantomime Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. II. Vernon the butcher, Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe,... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1823 - 288 pages
...or a : — I. " I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every yefcr and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant. The age...Pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time. II. Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Bnrgoyne, Kcppel, Howe,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...JUAN. CANTO I. I. 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 1 should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...singular poem : I want a lit io : an uncommon want, AVhen every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the Gazettes with cant, The age...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
...JUAN. CANTO I. l. 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...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... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1825 - 560 pages
...one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovert he is not the true one ; Of inch as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, 1 .' We all have seen him in the Pantomime . . i Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time. . v _ ll... | |
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