 | John Keats, James Russell Lowell, Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (baron).) - 1871 - 342 psl.
...Listen awhile, ye nations, and be dumb. 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 1 never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - 194 psl.
...Parliament. George Chapman, the poet, whose translation of " Homer" rings with so true a music, — " Yet did I never breathe its pure serene, Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold"— (Keats.) was, according to some authorities, a native of Wareham (15571634) ; and here,... | |
 | John Keats - 1873 - 402 psl.
...fair face shall bid our spirits fly. IX. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 psl.
...builds in poets feigning. GEOROE CHAPMAN. tlieir loves SONNET. ON FIR8T LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many...breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out lond and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or... | |
 | George Chapman - 1875 - 576 psl.
...all honour to his memory. S. SHEPPARD.t ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have 1 been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1875 - 370 psl.
...from an antique land ; or that best known of John Keats', which we all had by heart in our boyhood — Much have I travelled in the realms of gold And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; or the same writer's last and sweetest, written but a little while before his death, in a copy of... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1876 - 444 psl.
...ago," and then he proeeeded to read, in tones tremulous with delight, these undying lines : — " Mueh have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly...kingdoms seen ; Round many Western islands have I been Whieh bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 psl.
...but not one possessing superior merit to that composed ' On first looking into Chapman's Homer.' " Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many...kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I beeu, Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browad... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 psl.
...croft, And gathering swallows twitter from the skies. Sonnets. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. ll and military prowess had not kingdom seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 732 psl.
...others. He read to them, amongst others, that fine sonnet already mentioned, — "0« FIBIT LOOKIH " Much have I travelled in the realms of gold. And many...That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did 1 never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold. Then felt I like some... | |
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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... 
