 | 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pages
...have a less chance of circulation than those of the others above-enumerated. 'Much have I travel! 'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...I been, Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft df one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...here, as a remarkable instance of a vein prematurely masculine. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many...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... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...an angel's tear, That falls through the clear ether silently. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN S HOMER. MUCH have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...poetry," is his sonnet " On first looking into Chapman's Homer :" — " Much have I travel'd in the land of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen,...in fealty to Apollo hold ; Oft of one wide expanse have I been told, That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet I did never breathe its pure serene... | |
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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... 
