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... Literature and Life - Page 12by Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922Full view - About this book
| Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...is nearly faultless, and the picturesque touch at the end above all praise. " Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow d Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe iU pure serene Till I heard Chapman... | |
| Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...written on the subject of his first reading Chapman's Homer. It is as follows : " Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene, Till I heard Chapman... | |
| Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...written on the subject of his first reading Chapman's Homer. It is as follows : " Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene, Till I heard Chapman... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 500 pages
...instance of a vein prematurely m asculine. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...hold; Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene, Till I heard Chapman... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...instance of a vein prematurely masculine. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...hold ; Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene, Till I heard Chapman... | |
| Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...Walton's heavenly memory. JOHN KEATS. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer rul'd as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...through the clear ether silently. ON FIRST LOOKING LNTO CHAPMAN'S НОЖЕВ. MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold. And many goodly states and...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman... | |
| John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...bid our spirits fly. November 18, 1816. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...falls through the clear ether silently. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN S HOMER. MUCH have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been toW That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...swallows twitter from the skie«. Sonnets. [On Firat Looking into Chapman's Homer. 3 Much have I travelled snows a stiffe ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and... | |
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