...glories, And wish they were not owing to the Tories. WANTED— A HERO. (DON JUAN, Canto i. Stanzas 1-5.) I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time, Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand,...

...glories, And wish they were not owing to the Tories. WANTED— A HERO. (DON JUAN, Canto i. Stanzas 1-5.) I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time, Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand,...

...creed's a task grown quite Hercu1s it not so, my Tory, Ultra-Julian ? • VENICE, Stfttmttr 16, 1818. I. soar, High as thine own in days of yore. When man...might have led Thy sons to deeds sublime, Now crawl 111 therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him, In the pantomime. Sent to...

...producing and enjoying the epic poet of the period? Does fancy hear an echo of the Byronic muse ? ' ' I want a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one." Perhaps, however, though there be no scarcity of material, the essential qualities of that material...

...and cried for a long time. And this was the end of Paul Felix. CHAPTER III. EAVE LODGE, WINTERDALE. ' I want a hero ; an uncommon want When every year and month sends forth a new one.' BYRON. IN a county in the south of England, the name of which is immaterial — say Dampshire or Dirtshire...

...in whose heurt One passion stands for all, the most indulged. a. BAILEY— f'esius. Proem. Line 114. I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. b. BÏKON— Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally...

...passion stands for all, the most indulged. a. BAILEY — Festus. Proem. Line 114. I want n hero: tin uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. b. BÏIION -- Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1. Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally...

...Count Julian, but to Gibbon's hero, vulgarly yclept " The Apostate." 6. DON JUAN. Canto tbe fffrst. i. I WANT a hero : an uncommon want, When every year...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...

...for heroes in this as in every other line of excellence. The cynical historian of Don Juan says — " Want a hero ! An uncommon want. When every year and...cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers that he's not the true one." A serious reflection for any group of hero- worshippers at all in doubt...

...252462B T1LDKN K1! : .lATiONS II 1943 L PREFACE. IN the opening verse of " Don Juan," Byron wrote : " I want a hero ; an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one." There are indeed many to whom the title is given on the ground of some acts of brilliant courage or...