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...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,...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,...

...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,...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,...

...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,...western path To glad the nations with expected light." — Vol. ii. pp. 117, 118. But it is high time to part from the shores of America, and wing our way...

...Isusual acuteness, has successfully toriadellaVolgarPoesia, (Venezia, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. PART L Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth,...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...

...toriadellaVolgarPoesia, (Venezia, applied the vast stores of his eru- 1731,) torn. iii. pp. 273, 274. PART 1. Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth,...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...

...At our Antipodes are cities, states, And 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. But it is high time to part from the shores of America, and wing our way...

...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,...

...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,...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,...

...Well-balanced hangs amid the starry spheres. * Viera, Hut. III. Can. f Ttteatro Orilico, tom, iv., dx At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged...western path To glad the nations with expected light." Canto xxv., it. 229, 230. Dante, two centuries before, had indicated more vaguely his belief in an...