 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...  Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets - Page 295by William Howitt - 1863 - 706 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak w visible spires of the adjacent churches seemed to rise less distant than before, gaily — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. On England. Happy is England ! I could be content To see no other... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...deep-browed 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...like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — ar.d all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pages
...— " 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 Pacific,...men. • Looked at each other with a wild surmise," if Keats could say this, whose mind had been unconsciously fed with the results of this culture, —... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1876 - 346 pages
...— " Then felt I like some watcher of the skiea When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific,...his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise," if Keats could say this, whose mind had been unconsciously fed with the results of this culture, —... | |
 | John Kirkwood - 1876 - 160 pages
...prospect beyond, burst upon us. We were like one that dreamed, ' ' Or like stout Cortes, 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 of Darien. " Yet, instead of the lone Pacific, it was clear that we were on a well... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...some watcher of the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or, like stout Cortes, 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." But the greatest of English sonnet- writers is Wordsworth. Not... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 164 pages
..." 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 Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." Peter Martyr,... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet never did I breathe its pure serene, Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold. Then felt I like some watcher of...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent upon a peak in Darien." § 431. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL. The difference... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...deep-browed Homer ruled as bis 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...— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmiseSilent, upon a peak in Darien. iIOHK КПП. TJHLAND. IT is the poet Uhland, from whose wreathings... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - English poetry - 1999 - 306 pages
...deep-browed 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...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.... | |
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