 | Historical account - 1836 - 510 pagina’s
...the neighbourhood of Tierra del Fuego, under the Or like stout Cortex, 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." name Of TERRA AUSTRALIS NONDUM COGNITA. Of the innumerable clusters... | |
 | ACCOUNT. - 1837 - 392 pagina’s
...the sides When a new planet swims into his ken, "r like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes Jle stared at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, bitom, upon a peak in Darien." cliffs of New Albion, in 48° north latitude, to Cape Pilaros on Tierra... | |
 | 1889 - 324 pagina’s
...COKTEZ," SILAS WEGO said, when I told him of the adventure — " —When with eagle eyee He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." I say "Yes," tho', to tell the truth, I was not thinking of COBTEZ... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyea lie stared t thee. He heard of thy fame in war ; he heard of foes dispersed ; he heard — Silent, upon a peak iu Darien. [The Human Seasons.] Four seasons fill the measure of the year ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared g in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. [The Human Seasons.] Four seasons fill the measure of the year ;... | |
 | 1848 - 886 pagina’s
...skies, When a new planet swims into his ken; or like stout Cortex, when with eujrle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in DHrien.' We had intended to mark such lines and passages in this little piece... | |
 | 1848 - 694 pagina’s
...beyond it, the discovery of which was reserved for Vasco Nunez — " 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 Daricn." In one, then, and a principal one, of the supposed purposes of his... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1851 - 188 pagina’s
...astonished eyes of Columbus and his crew, or the scenes that Nunez saw : " When, with eagle eye He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other, with a wild surmise, Silent upon a peak in Darien." In the yellow and mouldy pages of the old military and monkish chronicles... | |
 | Orlando Thomas Dobbin - 1852 - 152 pagina’s
...him, as fearless as the highsouled Genoese,— " Or like stout Cortes, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surprise — Silent upon a peak of Darien." This is evidently the philosophy of the case, as felt by... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pagina’s
...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. XII. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOCE. GIVE me a golden... | |
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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. 
