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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... "
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 140
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Preparatory Greek Course in English

William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1882 - 314 pages
...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...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 lie stared...
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With the Poets: A Selection of English Poetry

Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen : Round many western islands have I been Which...wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR. GIVE me a golden pen, and let me lean On heaped-up flowers,...
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Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young Readers

John Dennis - 1883 - 430 pages
...translation of Homer. " Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been, Which...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent — upon a peak in Darien." " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," was the poetical creed of...
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The English poets, selections, ed. by T.H. Ward. Wordsworth to Dobell ...

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which...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...
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The Royal Readers: Special Canadian Series ..., Book 5

1883 - 528 pages
...KEATS (1795-1821). Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. THE ODYSSEY. ANDREW LANG. [This sonnet Mr. Lang prefixes to the...
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Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young Readers

John Dennis - 1883 - 426 pages
...translation of Homer. " Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been, Which...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent — upon a peak in Darien." " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," was the poetical creed of...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which...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...
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With the poets: a selection of English poetry. [Ed.] by F.W. Farrar

Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pages
...INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which...— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmiseSilent, upon a peak in Darien. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR. GIVE me- a golden pen,...
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The Letters and Poems of John Keats, Volume 2

John Keats - 1883 - 318 pages
...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. KEEN, fitful gusts...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which...Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmiseSilent, upon a peak in Darien. ii. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed...
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