| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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