 | William Hickling Prescott - 1884 - Страниц: 804
...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...spheres. At our Antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er dunned of yore. But see, the Sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations... | |
 | 1893 - Страниц: 792
...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...divine, Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres." 1 For twenty years Columbus had been drawing charts, studying philosophical works, visiting the seas... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1886 - Страниц: 264
...wave, a smooth mid level plain, Albeit the earth is fashion'd like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn...by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid ihe starry spheres. At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore.... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - 1888 - Страниц: 940
...level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. t Man was in ancient days of grosser mold, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly Ml The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way." —Translated by Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella,... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1894 - Страниц: 822
...The western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. . . . . . . . Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits...hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend. Such was the intellectual atmosphere in which Columbus formed his great enterprise. ECLIPSED BY MAGELLAN.... | |
 | George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood - 1890 - Страниц: 326
...1487], " sire of the half serious line : " — " Men shall descry another hemisphere ; Since to one centre all things tend, So earth by curious mystery...balanced hangs amid the starry spheres. At our antipodes arc cities, states, And throng'd empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the sun speeds in his western... | |
 | Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood - 1891 - Страниц: 366
...1487], " sire of the half serious line " : — " Men shall descry another hemisphere ; Since to one centre all things tend. So earth by curious mystery...spheres. At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the sun speeds in his western path To glad the nations... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1892 - Страниц: 956
...fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to know how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set The dullest...spheres. At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1892 - Страниц: 44
...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...shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common center all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres.... | |
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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... 
