 With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery. Until his last breath he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts...  Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Pagina 717door Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 733 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Patricia Ann Carlson - 1986 - 312 pagina’s
...profoundesi irony of the great navtgator's career: "With all the visionary fervor of hts imagtnation, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality He died...in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery" (The Life and Voyagesof Christopher Columbus [New York: GP Putnam's Sons. nd], XVIII, 140). changed... | |
 | William Morris - 2002 - 800 pagina’s
...for he has accomplished more than initially hoped: With all the visionary fervour of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died...in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! (397). Several of lrving's reconstructions of his explorers' intense emotional fluctuations often parallel... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2013 - 521 pagina’s
...fables, and of deciphering the mystery of his time." ' With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died...some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hisjnmiolato be the ancient Ophir which had been visited by the ships of Solomon, and that Cuba and... | |
 | Edmundo O'Gorman - 2007 - 190 pagina’s
...logical in iis concatenation, etc... " 1hid. 1. v. 45. 1bid.lv 46. " Until his last breath he entertuined the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resons of opulent commerce. and had discovered some ofthe wild regions ofthe Easi. " 1bid. XV111, v.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 pagina’s
...tinged every thing with its own +gorgeous colors. 6. With all the visionary +fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died...had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. What visions of glory would have broken upon his mind, could he have known that he had indeed discovered... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pagina’s
...fables, and of deciphering the mystery of his age.' " With all the visionary fervour of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died...entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to tito old resorts of opulent commerce, and hud discovered some of the wild regions of the east. He supposed... | |
 | 1828 - 506 pagina’s
...which they could not perceive when pointed out." " With all the visionary fervour of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died...real grandeur of his discovery. Until his last breath be entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce,... | |
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