 | English periodicals - 1886 - 520 pages
...imagination in the following from Keats — " Or like stout Cortez, 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." Or in this from Wordsworth's ' Yewtrees '. : " Nor uninformed with... | |
 | Susan J. Wolfson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 324 pages
...(13-14) even sees in Keats's final simile for his sensation on reading Chapman's translation 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. (11-14) - a sympathy for the... | |
 | Alan Boyle - Law - 2002 - 407 pages
...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 surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. There are admittedly some difficulties with this quotation: it was... | |
 | Simon Goldhill - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 340 pages
...emotional world: 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. Keats dramatizes his reaction... | |
 | Gisela Thome, Claudia Giehl, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast - Context (Linguistics) - 2002 - 370 pages
...landscape: 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 I^ook'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien. (Keats 1921:38) The replacement... | |
 | Oliver Morton - Science - 2002 - 388 pages
...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 surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. — John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" On 13 February... | |
 | John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pages
...of astronomy at Enfield School. 24 Knowledge. Or like stout Cortez25 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.26 From Endymion A mythological romance in four books, Endymion was... | |
 | Oliver Morton - Science - 2002 - 388 pages
...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 surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. — John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" On 13 February... | |
 | David H. Levy - Science - 2003 - 200 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 Most critics have written that Keats was recalling William... | |
 | Alice Flaherty - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 328 pages
...of 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 star'd at the...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. Silent — briefly. Why was Keats inspired and Coleridge blocked... | |
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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... 
