Heaven’s starry globe, and there sustains it;—so
Do these upbear the little world below
Of education,—Patience, Love, and Hope.—Coleridge.
[152] So at least we conjecture from certain stage directions in the dramas of Hroswitha, which seem to infer a good deal of skill on the part of the stage manager.
[153] M. Delisle, in his Notice on the Life and Writings of Odericus, explains this expression to mean the Latin alphabet; Carmenta Nicostrata, the mother of the Arcadian Evander, being held by some to have first invented letters. He could not, however, have been five years learning his alphabet, so we may probably understand him to mean the ordinary elementary instruction in Latin.
[154] Now known as the Priorata, or Priory of St. John of Jerusalem.
[155] Rohrbacher, Hist. Ecc. tom. xiv. 48-60.
Essa è la luce eterna di Sigieri,
Che, leggendo nel Vico degli Strami,