 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 trang
...What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern ? SONNETS. i. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — • Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ii. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 trang
...living, reigning, And proves how firm Truth builds in poets feigning. GEORGE CHAPMAN. their loves SONNET. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. KEATs. SOCRATES. NIGHT is fair Virtue's immemorial friend. The conscious... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 trang
...That falls through the clear ether silently. ccci Off FIRST LOOKING INTO CffAPAfAfTS HOMER. AT UCH have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ccci i Off THE GRASSffOPPEK AND CRICKET. TPHE poetry of earth is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 582 trang
...Truth builds in poets feigning. GEOKQE CHAPMAN. SONNET. ON FIEST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMEB. MTJCH have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. KEATS. SOCRATES. NIGHT is fair Virtue's immemorial friend. The conscious... | |
 | 1916 - 714 trang
...poem, explain each passage in italics. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMEK. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...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. — KEATS. IX.—... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 trang
...in which he says — "Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-browed Homer ruled as hia demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene...his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien." It was a great favourite with Charles Lamb and ST Coleridge.1 I put... | |
 | 1916 - 762 trang
...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...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. — KEATS. IX.—... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 trang
...been, Which bards, in fealty to Apollo, hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe...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." Behnes' poor bald... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 490 trang
...travelled in the realms of gold, JOHN KEATS •^ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; 1705-1821 Round many western islands have I been Which bards...out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortex, when with eagle eyes He stared... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1880 - 202 trang
...been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe...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 Daricn.... | |
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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... 
