 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 Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Seite 314von Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Andrew Lang - 1891 - 384 Seiten
...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. pa, SONG FOR MUSIC... | |
 | Isaac Bassett Choate - 1891 - 356 Seiten
...wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe the pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and...his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, — Silent upon a peak in Darien." It is true that the great measure of this praise belongs to " deep-browed... | |
 | Giosuè Carducci, Frank Sewall - 1892 - 152 Seiten
...Homer," and put a whole age of ecstatic delight into these matchless lines: Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne...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. Listen to Theocritus... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 Seiten
...many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. 11. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 Seiten
...many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. Cbapter 11. RECENT WRITERS. — 1830. THE year 1830 may conveniently... | |
 | John Barnard - 1987 - 192 Seiten
...sense of enlargement, of entering new worlds, which literature can offer: Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ('On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', lines 5-14) The deficiencies... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 Seiten
...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. 199. The Wrath... | |
 | Homer - 1992 - 514 Seiten
...Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his desmesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard...- and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmis Silent, upon a peak in Darien. [Barnard, p. 72] Simeon Underwood points out that this sonnet,... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - 1994 - 284 Seiten
...many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse have I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;...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.... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 Seiten
...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had 1 been told, That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did 1 never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman...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 KEATS Chaucer... | |
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