 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 586 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path To glad the nations with expected light. The dialogues of Pulci's devils respecting freewill and necessity, their former glorious, and their... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...rimanente, Non vogliate negar 1'esperienza, Directro al sol del, mondo senza gente. Inferno. Can. xxv. 1 15. At our Antipodes are cities, states, And thronged...western path To glad the nations with expected light. Notwithstanding the good faith and poetical elevation of its concluding cantos, the Morgante, according... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1838 - 544 pages
...273, 274. PART 1. Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path To glad the nations with expected light." ll Columbus's hypothesis rested on much higher ground than mere popular belief. What indeed was credulity... | |
 | WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT - 1838 - 574 pages
...CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. PART L Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path To glad the nations with expected light." ll Columbus's hypothesis rested on much higher ground than mere popular belief. What indeed was credulity... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1838 - 592 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path To glad the nations with expected light." t • It is probably the know- and Crescimbeni, Volgar Poesia, ledge of this which has led some Venezia,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1838 - 618 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...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 Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1842 - 504 pages
...another hemisphere. Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 854 pages
...Pulci, who, a generation before that event, wrote — " Men shall descry another hemisphere * « » * But see, the sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light." It is rather, however, with the prophecies made concerning the destiny of America after it was colonized,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1845 - 662 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path To glad the nations with expected light." The dialogues of Pulci's devils respecting free-will and necessity, their former glorious, and their... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Italian literature - 1849 - 364 pages
...another hemisphere, ', Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth by curious mystery divine, Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path, To glad the nations with expected light." Whence did Pulci derive this ? Was it a random guess, or a happy inspiration ? Or were there scholars,... | |
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Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend ; So... 
