 | 1873 - 164 strani
..." 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 - 1878 - 584 strani
...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 Pacific,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - 1878 - 314 strani
...Homer: "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 Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent upon a peak in Darien." Queer people travel. Returning to the car I saw a broad-gauge Teuton,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 strani
...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 Pacific...— 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... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 376 strani
...— 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. John Ktah. FANCY... | |
 | William Bell Scott - 1879 - 162 strani
...Like 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 of Darien." The charm of colour is the vulgar, or rather universal charm, and... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 strani
...— 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. John Ktats. FANCY... | |
 | 1880 - 226 strani
...same transport. The occasion has been thus expressed : — " With eagle eyes He stared at the Paciftc, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien." A priest among the number of the adventurers was the first to break... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2000 - 366 strani
...Shutergardan, and Khyber passes. 27-8. Cf. Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', 12-14: 'and all his men | Looked at each other with a wild surmise — | Silent, upon a peak in Darien'. 29. Marri: tribesman of the Yusuf2ai, who inhabited the mountains... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 2000 - 308 strani
...in fancy these strange emotions, and to convey them, in some sort, to our souls : . . . 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. Henry James confessed... | |
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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... 
