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" 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 Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. "
Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and ... - Page 104
by Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 400 pages
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Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young Readers

John Dennis - 1883 - 430 pages
...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." " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," was the poetical creed of...
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Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young Readers

John Dennis - 1883 - 426 pages
...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." " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," was the poetical creed of...
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The Overland Monthly

1913 - 656 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." Pastures Jiy J'ercy Walton Wliitaker THE Skeems ranch in Hungry...
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With the poets: a selection of English poetry. [Ed.] by F.W. Farrar

Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 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 surmiseSilent, upon a peak in Darien. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR. GIVE me- a golden pen,...
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Tourists ̓illustrated Guide to the Celebrated Summer and Winter Resorts of ...

Benjamin Cummings Truman - 1883 - 294 pages
...skies, When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared atlhe Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." T is eminently proper that our views and descriptions of the natural...
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The Century: 1883, Volume 27

1884 - 982 pages
...the shadow of the very ridge where stood the Spaniard, " • • • when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise," my fellow- traveler captured a superb blue moth, of a species so rare and so difficult to secure that...
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The city of gold; or, The wonderful story of H. Cortes and the conquest of ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1884 - 280 pages
...Plata. The isthmus of Panama had been traversed by Nunez de Balboa : — "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." And Sebastian Cabot had explored the North American mainland from Labrador...
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On the Structure of English Verse

Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 180 pages
...the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortes 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. KEATS. Keen fitful gusts are whispering here and there Among the...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 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 surmiseSilent, upon a peak in Darien. ii. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed...
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The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky ...

Ernest Ingersoll - 1885 - 362 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his knn; Or like stout Cortes, 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. — KEATS. NE of the wonders of Colorado progress is the Gunnison...
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