 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 Conquest of Canada - Page 247by George Warburton - 1850 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | History - 1883 - 540 pages
...pilot shall find new worlds, and Thule shall be no more earth's bound. — WHATBLY'S Translation.'] His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The...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 dullest sea... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1884 - 804 pages
...alluding to the vulgar superstition respecting the Pillars of Hercules, thus addresses his companion Rinaldo. " Know that this theory is false; his bark...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 dullest sea-boat... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 792 pages
...passage which anticipates the discovery of America and the circumnavigation of the globe : — "... his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The...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 dullest sea-boat... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1886 - 264 pages
...of the Pillars of Hercules, thus addresses his companion : "Know that this theory is false, his hark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth mid level plain, Albeit the earth is fashion'd like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould,... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - Education - 1888 - 940 pages
...Isabella. The Italian Poet Pulci, 1431-1487. in his Morgante Maggiore, anticipates Columbus— " * * * his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The...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... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1894 - 822 pages
...he predicted " the discovery of a new hemisphere and the circumnavigation of the globe : " . . . . his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The...plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. . . . . . . . Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set The dullest... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1892 - 956 pages
...answering Rinaldo, and refuting the general belief that the world ended at the Pillars of Hercules : " Know that this theory is false; his bark The daring...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 sea^-boat... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - America - 1892 - 44 pages
...Pulci makes the Devil confute the old theory that these Pillars are the western limit of the earth. " Know that this theory is false; his bark The daring...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 dullest sea-boat... | |
 | America - 1892 - 734 pages
...Prescott in his " Ferdinand and Isabella," Vol. II, 117:' "his bark The daring mariner shall urge fur o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit...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 dullest sea-bout... | |
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