 | 1878 - 542 pàgines
...explorers across vast regions of that terra incognita of which Dean Swift wrote in the last century— " Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Nor was the accusation wholly unfounded. The... | |
 | 1878 - 538 pàgines
...explorers across vast regions of that terra incognita, of which Dean Swift wrote in the last century — " Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want uf towns." Nor was the accusation wholly unfounded. The... | |
 | 1880 - 790 pàgines
...discovered, though some may easily be conjectured. I N his " Rhapsody on Poetry " Swift declares that Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. If the rate of destruction of large game in Africa is long maintained, an illustration of this kind... | |
 | 1871 - 612 pàgines
...with one foot too short ; Or like a bridge, that joins a marish To moorland of a different parish. So geographers in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o' er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." William Mackworth Praed was very happy... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pàgines
...your gentleness shall foree More than your foree mo've us to gentleness. Sh. As 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 ereatures in old worlds, of nameless worms,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 416 pàgines
...the age of desiring to throw on the devil's back — an unnecessary load, certainly, since such * [" So geographers in Afric maps, With savage pictures...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.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 pàgines
...as localized a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures...unhabitable downs , Place elephants for want of towns. The witty Dean's lines show at least that the geographers did not mistake the wide distribution of... | |
 | 1882 - 884 pàgines
...as localized a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. The witty Dean's lines show at least that the geographers did not mistake the wide distribution of... | |
 | Belgravia - 1882 - 716 pàgines
...as localized a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. The witty Dean's lines show at least that the geographers did not mistake the wide distribution of... | |
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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. 
