 Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the...  American Presbyterian and Theological Review - Page 171publié par - 1869Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Walter Thornbury - 1851 - 188 pages
...astonished eyes of Columbus and his crew, or the scenes that Nunez saw : " When, with eagle eye He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other, with a wild surmise, Silent upon a peak in Darien." In the yellow and mouldy pages of the old military and monkish chronicles... | |
 | Orlando Thomas Dobbin - 1852 - 152 pages
...looked out upon the waste before him, as fearless as the highsouled Genoese,— " Or like stout Cortes, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surprise — Silent upon a peak of Darien." This is evidently the philosophy of the case, as felt by... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like sUmt Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. Leigh Hunt remarks, it... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. XII. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOCE. GIVE me a golden... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. CHARLES WOLFE. 1791-1823. The Burial of Sir John Moore. Not a drum... | |
 | 1857 - 678 pages
...skiee, When a new planet swims into hi« ken; Or like stout Cortez when, with eagle eyes, He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." la theatricals, of late, the public has not been astounded by a... | |
 | 1857 - 686 pages
...skies, When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when, with eagle eye«, He etared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmieo — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." In theatricals, of late, the public has not been astounded... | |
 | Henry Bacon - 1857 - 376 pages
...skies, When a new pliinet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild sunniss — Silent. upon a peak in Darien." But equally so do we find the good of silence in. social... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...new planet swims into his ken, Or like stout Cortex, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Faciflc— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien." The two poets became speedily familiar and almost inseparable. They... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1918 - 636 pages
...the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. The historian says, "But, Mr. Keats, are you quite sure that the... | |
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