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" 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. "
Byron - Page 26
by John Nichol - 1902 - 223 pages
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1863 - 370 pages
...gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — • Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR. GIVE me a golden pen,...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

1863 - 438 pages
...gold And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. y. Keats CLXVII ODE ON THE POETS BARDS of Passion and of Mirth Ye...
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The Iliads of Homer, done [into Engl. verse] by G. Chapman, with ..., Volume 1

Homerus - 1865 - 384 pages
...bold : Then felt I like some wateher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific...wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." The opinions of Coleridge, Lamb, and Mr. RH Horne, might lead the reader to infer that Chapman's noble...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...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. * CLXVII J. Keats ODE ON THE POETS -—Yes, and those of heaven commune...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...Haydon. 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...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. On first looking into Chapman* s Ifomfr. The poetry of earth is...
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Leaves from the Poets' Laurels

1869 - 254 pages
...gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. Keats. THE RIGHTFUL HEIR. (DESCRIPTION OF YOUTH.) * * * Oh, when...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...through the French. 2. Ken : see note 10, extract 95. •* ' j. ' Or like stout Cortes,3 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. 3. This ls a mistake on the part of Keats. It was not Cortes,...
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The New Sporting Magazine, Volume 16

1839 - 556 pages
...shape of several spurious thorough-breds. But Cortez must have anticipated Epsom ! " So stood stout Cortez ! when with eagle eyes, He stared at the Pacific...his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent upon a peak in Darien." Landed however we are ! And let us get to the warren. The appearance...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1871 - 402 pages
...gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR. GIVE me a golden pen,...
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In exile at Ferrara. Exile at Venice. Home again. Last exile and last home ...

Henry Morley - 1871 - 332 pages
...causing him to feel " 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...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Dai-ion." While you have Greek to study you are not without another world...
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