 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 pàgines
...recourse to those Jillin^s-up which, we are wittily told by the poet, were employed in his time: — ' Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps. And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants, for want of towns.' There is nothing so easy as to (ill up the... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 620 pàgines
...Spanish traveller, Leo Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were not more witty than true : " Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." ' At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Leo penetrated as far as Timbuctoo and the Niger, but... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1828 - 454 pàgines
...Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were not more witty than true : — .!." l» '• ' ' i " Geographers, in Afric maps, , With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." .i'; "• ' •' At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Leo penetrated as far as Timbuctoo and... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 628 pàgines
...Spanish traveller, Leo Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were not more witty than true : " Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." ' At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Leo penetrated as far as Timbuctoo and the Niger, but... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1828 - 350 pàgines
...Spanish traveller, Leo Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were not more witty than true. " Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Leo penetrated as far as Timbuctoo and the Niger, but so... | |
 | 1828 - 636 pàgines
...Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were uotniore witty than true : " Geographers, in Afrlc maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." •>• • 'i. ' ••» '• ": •' .,.»•.! :. I . — • .: !l ' ' At the beginning of the... | |
 | 1831 - 790 pàgines
...moorlands of a diff'rent parish. J So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag diff rent ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 380 pàgines
...moorlands of a different parish. So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But, though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pàgines
...moorland of a different parish. So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But, though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pàgines
...moorlands of a different parish : So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. pace ihe way; These grave physicians with their milky...maid and dwindling beau repair; BOOK 1. GAY. Here row But, though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts... | |
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So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. 
