 | Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...and bold. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, When a new plantt stems into his ken, Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien. Modern criticism has made... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...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 star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. EDWARD LORD THURLOW. TO... | |
 | Historical account - Discoveries in geography - 1836 - 510 pages
...the neighbourhood of Tierra del Fuego, under the Or like stout Cortex, 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." name Of TERRA AUSTRALIS NONDUM COGNITA. Of the innumerable clusters... | |
 | ACCOUNT. - Discoveries in geography - 1837 - 392 pages
...the sides When a new planet swims into his ken, "r like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes Jle stared at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, bitom, upon a peak in Darien." cliffs of New Albion, in 48° north latitude, to Cape Pilaros on Tierra... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1889 - 324 pages
...COKTEZ," SILAS WEGO said, when I told him of the adventure — " —When with eagle eyee He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." I say "Yes," tho', to tell the truth, I was not thinking of COBTEZ... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1842 - 864 pages
...and bold. Then I felt like some watcher of the skies, \\'lmi a new planet swims into his ken, Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent upon a peak in Darien." In 1818 Mr. Keats published... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared g in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. [The Human Seasons.] Four seasons fill the measure of the year ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyea lie stared t thee. He heard of thy fame in war ; he heard of foes dispersed ; he heard — Silent, upon a peak iu Darien. [The Human Seasons.] Four seasons fill the measure of the year ;... | |
 | Commerce - 1848 - 694 pages
...beyond it, the discovery of which was reserved for Vasco Nunez — " 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 Daricn." In one, then, and a principal one, of the supposed purposes of his... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 886 pages
...skies, When a new planet swims into his ken; or like stout Cortex, when with eujrle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in DHrien.' We had intended to mark such lines and passages in this little piece... | |
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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... 
