 | Jerónimo Lobo - 1789 - 520 pàgines
...confulted his fenfes not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his...rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with irremediable barrennefs, or bleffed with fpontaneous... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pàgines
...confulted his fenfes, not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions curfed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pàgines
..." not his imagination. He meets with no bafi" lifks, that deftroy with their eyes; his cro" codiles devour their prey, without tears ; and " his cataracts...without " deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The ** reader will here find no regions curfed with ** irremediable barrenaefs, or blefied with fpon"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pàgines
...consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his, cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed... | |
 | James Bruce - 1804 - 518 pàgines
...consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; and his cataracts fall from the rock, without -deafening the neighbouring inhabitants." At first reading this passage, I confess I thought it irony. As to what regards the cataract, one of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pàgines
...their eyes; his * For an account of this book, see the Life of Dr JOHNION, by the Editor. Vot. II. A a crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his...rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pàgines
...his senses, not his imagination. He " meets with no basilisks, that destroy with " their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey, " without tears; and...from the " rock, without deafening the neighbouring in" habitants. The reader will here find no re" gions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or " blessed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pàgines
...fixed to this edition. liis imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his...rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pàgines
...consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks, that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey, without tears ; and...rock, without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pàgines
...consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his...rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. * For an account of this book, see the Life of Dr. Johnson, prefixed to this Edition. VOL. II. Y The... | |
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He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles... 
