 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pàgines
...pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end. Poetry, a Rhapsody. So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pàgines
...Pegu, or Cochin China, where they are found of the largest size, that ever exceed that height." But " Geographers in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants, for want of towns." Sir Walter Scott, upon seeing a very fine... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pàgines
...Spanish traveler Leo Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject, were not moi>a witty than true. " Geographers, in Afric maps, .With, savage pictures...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pàgines
...parish. So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry ground*. So geographers in Afrio maps With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want or towns. One of the happiest similes to be met with is in Green's poem on the Spleen. It is an allusion... | |
 | 1859 - 708 pàgines
...towns.1' There was, probably, in the writer's mind the following from Swift's " Rhapsody on Poetry :"— " So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, . And o'er unhabitable downs Placed elephants for want of towns." Chalmers" Edition of the Works of the English Poet, vol. xi. p.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 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 Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pàgines
...A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end. Imitation of Horace. B. it. Sat. 6 So geographers, in Afric maps,* With savage pictures...unhabitable .downs Place elephants for want of towns. So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pàgines
...P your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness. Sh. Ae YL n.7. GEOGRAPHY. So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs GEOLOGY. And in that rock are shapes of shells, and forms Of creatures in old worlds, of nameless worms,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pàgines
...friend, A river at my garden's end. Imitation of Horace. Book ii. Sat. 6. So geographers, in Afric maps,1 With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. Poetry, a Rhapsody. Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1870 - 426 pàgines
...throw on the devil's back — an unnecessary load, certainly, since such * [" So geographers in Afrio maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er...unhabitable downs, Place elephants for want of towns." SWIFT, On Poetry.] things do not exist, and it is therefore in vain to seek to account for them. It... | |
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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. 
