 | Jonathan Swift - 1734 - 44 sivua
...ill-coupled Hounds Drag diff'rent Ways in miry Grounds. So Geographers, in Aj'ric Maps, With favage PiSures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. But tho' you mifs your third Effay, You need not throw your Pen away. Lay now afide all Thoughts of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1735 - 502 sivua
...ill-coupled Hounds* Drag diff'rent Ways in miry Grounds. So Geographers in Afric Maps With Savage Piftures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns: BUT though you mifs your third Eflay, You need not throw your Pen away. Lay now afide all Thoughts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1744 - 416 sivua
...Moorlands of ad iff* rent Parifh. So have I feen ill-coupled Hounds, Drag difPrent Ways in miry Grounds. So Geographers in Afric Maps With Savage Pictures fill...unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. • BUT, though you mifs your third Effay* You need not throw your Pen away. Lay now afide all Thoughts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 412 sivua
...hounds, . • Drag different ways in miry grounds :;; So Geographers in dfri.c maps With favage piftures fill their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns, BUT though you mifs yonr third eflay,! . ' You need not throw your pen away. Lay now afide all thoughts... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 sivua
...ill-coupled hounds Drag diff'rent ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps With favage piftures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants, for want of towns. But, though you mifs your third effay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now afide all thoughts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 462 sivua
...coupled hounds Drag diff'rent ways in miry gronnds. So geographers in Afric maps With favage pi&ures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs, Place elephants for want of towns. But, though you mifs your third eflay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now afide all thoughts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 410 sivua
...ill-coupled hounds 175 IDrag dift'rent ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps With favage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. 1 80 But though you mils your third eflay, You ne^d not throw your pen away. Lay now alide all thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 400 sivua
...ill-coupled hounds i75. Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afiic maps With favage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. iSo But, though you mifs your third effay, You need not throw your pen away. Lav now afide all thoughts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 398 sivua
...ill-coupled hounds 1 75 Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers, in Afric maps, With favage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. i So But, though you mifs your third eflay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now afide all thoughts... | |
 | 1905 - 726 sivua
...need to be very old to remember when the whole interior of Africa was left blank upon the map. ' So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.' To the ancients Africa meant nothing but the Nile and the Desert. We do not propose to inquire whether... | |
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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. 
