 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pàgines
...moorlands of a different parish: So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his...for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build t But, though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 pàgines
...figures of deer were banished from the Green Park : — " So geographers, in Afric maps, With sarage pictures fill their gaps. And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." On the site of Apsley House stood a celebrated tavern, or better kind of public-house, called the Hercules... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 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. One of the happiest similes to be met with is in Green's poem on the Spleen. It is an allusion to the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pàgines
...have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps 2* With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. One of the happiest similes to be met with is in Green's poem on the Spleen. It is an allusion to the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pàgines
...have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps 2* With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. One of the happiest similes to be met with is in Green's poem on the Spleen. It is an allusion to the... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1847 - 446 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... | |
 | 1851 - 568 pàgines
...correct in his quotation ? In a poem of Swift's, "On Poetry, a Rhapsody," are these lines: — " S > geographers, in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Sialfft Work*, with Nota by Dr. Hawktiaorth, 1 767, vol. rii. p. 314. C. DE D. " Trepidation tal/fd"... | |
 | 1851 - 582 pàgines
...correct in his quotation ? In a poem of Swift's, " On Poetry, a Rhapsody," are these lines: — " S > geographers, in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Sieift's Wjrki, with Notei by Or. Haicluieorlh, 1 767, vol vii. p. 214. C. DE D. " Trepidation talKd"... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pàgines
...moorlands of a different parish : So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. @ <CNDN NzNcI N O O+)4I But, though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pàgines
...moorlands of a diff'rent parish. 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... | |
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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. 
