 Know that this theory is false; his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far...  The North American Review - Page 3631838Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 656 pages
...Albeit the earth is fashion 'd like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he...divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. * Dante, two centuries before, had also expressed the same belief in an undiscovered quarter of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 618 pages
...Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he...thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Son speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light." — Vol. ii. pp. 117, 118.... | |
 | WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT - 1838 - 574 pages
...Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, ' . And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he...wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, weight which belongs to more se- dition and experience to the illusrious suggestions, of similar im-... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1838 - 544 pages
...Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The d, ,ll CM sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, weight which belongs... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1842 - 504 pages
...Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he...ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Sun speeds on its western path To glad the nations with expected light."t of this which has led some writers canto... | |
 | George Warburton - 1849 - 528 pages
...And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits ho had vainly set, The dullest sea-bird soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another...things tend : So earth, by curious mystery divine Well-balanced hangs amid the starry spheres. * Viera, Hut. III. Can. f Ttteatro Orilico, tom, iv.,... | |
 | George Warburton - 1850 - 376 pages
...plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mold, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-bird soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common center all... | |
 | William Laxton - 1850 - 452 pages
...of, unless in the dreams of the poet. [MiRCH, "Man ml In anclfnt day* of grosser mould. And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly get, The dullest aea-boat Boon shall wing her wayi Mao shall descry another hemisphere. At our antipodes... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 606 pages
...plain, Albeit the earth is fashion'd like a wheel. Man was in aneient days of grosser mold. And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he...had vainly set* The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing lier way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common center all things tend. So earth,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...days of grosser mold, And Hercules minln blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set2 The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men...shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common center all things tend. So earth, by curious mystery divine 1 Lift and Viiyafts of Columbia. Well balanced,... | |
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