 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 26by John Nichol - 1902 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dunham Deshler - 1879 - 334 pages
...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken, Or like stout Cortoz 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.' "Another precocious child of song, who literally lisped in numbers,... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 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." Behnes' poor bald statue of Sir Robert Peel, at the Paternoster... | |
 | 1916 - 762 pages
...been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-broiued Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. — KEATS. IX.— MISCELLANEOUS. 1. Rewrite, using complete English... | |
 | 1916 - 714 pages
...been "Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. — KEATS. IX.— MISCELLANEOUS. 1. Kewrite, using complete English... | |
 | 1911 - 758 pages
...familiar. "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." I said that feeling properly viewed is the ultimate test of reality.... | |
 | Hawaiian Mission Children's Society - 1880 - 602 pages
...where our lot in life is cast. Centuries have passed since the day of the great discoverer, " 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." But it is within one hundred years that its real period of highest... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That dcep-brow'd a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And..."Spring is coming! Spring is here!" Say'st thou so, my b — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. JOHN KEATS. A VISION UPON THIS CONCEIT OF THE FAERIE QUEENE. METHOUOHT... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pages
...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Corte2 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. On first looking into Chapman's Homer. E'en like the passage of... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 364 pages
...effect produced upon him by his first introduction to the Greeks and their divine fables — " Oft of a wide expanse, had I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." This great new sea of inexhaustible story and vision which the... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 426 pages
...effect produced upon him by his first introduction to the Greeks and their divine fables — " Oft of a wide expanse, had I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer...all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." This great new sea of inexhaustible story and vision which the... | |
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