 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pàgines
...friend, A river at my garden's end. Imitation of Horace. B. ii. Sat. 6. So geographers, in Afric maps,t With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er 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... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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. The greater for the smaller watch, But seldom meddle with their match. A whale of moderate size will... | |
 | 1871 - 910 pàgines
...moor-lands 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 fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. This is one of the closest imitations of Butler's... | |
 | Frederick William Chesson - 1871 - 72 pàgines
...doing his best to wipe away the old reproach to which a great satirist gave witty expression : — " Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." It is curious that, during a recent visit to... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1873 - 592 pàgines
...Anthony Froude. Writers of this class proceed as was the custom with those geographers who, says Swift, In Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps,...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns, vot. xx.— No. xxxix. [New Serifs.] s When they cannot find facts or will not find facts, they make... | |
 | 1874 - 794 pàgines
...theory he will paraphrase a statement of fact. He is like "the geographers" described by Swift, who in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. Mr. Roebuck is able to dispense with such devices ; and whilst he is ready enough to imagine evil things... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...friend, A river at my garden's end. Imitation of Horace. Booh 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.... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pàgines
...this time a kind of joint occupancy of SAMARKAND and Bokhara with the Khans of Chagatai, his cousins. Marco evidently never was at Samarkand, though doubtless...regards the Christians of Samarkand who figure in the preceding story, we may note that the city had been one of the Metropolitan Sees of the Nestorian Church... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pàgines
...this time a kind of joint occupancy of SAMARKAND and Bokhara with the Khans of Chagatai, his cousins. Marco evidently never was at Samarkand, though doubtless...regards the Christians of Samarkand who figure in the preceding story, we may note that the city had been one of the Metropolitan Sees of the Nestorian Church... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pàgines
...this time :i kind of joint occupancy of SAMARKAND and Bokhara with the Khans of Chagatai, his cousins. Marco evidently never was at Samarkand, though doubtless...regards the Christians of Samarkand who figure in the preceding story, we may note that the city had been one of the Metropolitan Sees of the Nestorian Church... | |
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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. 
