 | Henry Luttrell - 1822 - 306 sivua
...I seen ill-coupled hounds " Drag different ways in miry grounds ; " So geographers in Africk-maps " With savage pictures fill their gaps, " And o'er unhabitable downs " Place elephants for want of towns." Even when constructed by the best workmen, the heroic couplet is often filled with too much of this... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 sivua
...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 fill...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 sivua
...recourse to those Jillin^s-up which, we are wittily told by the poet, were employed in his time: — ' Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps. And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants, for want of towns.' There is nothing so easy as to (ill up the... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 620 sivua
...interior, traced there by a hesitating hand, on the dubious authority of the Nubian geographer, Edressi, and the Spanish traveller, Leo Africanus. The rhymes...what he saw, that very little geographical knowledge \vns communicated by them. He was on the banks of the Niger, but it could not be ascertained from his... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1828 - 454 sivua
...Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were not more witty than true : — .!." l» '• ' ' i " Geographers, in Afric maps, , With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." .i'; "• ' •' At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Leo penetrated as far as Timbuctoo and... | |
 | 1828 - 636 sivua
...Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were uotniore witty than true : " Geographers, in Afrlc maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." •>• • 'i. ' ••» '• ": •' .,.»•.! :. I . — • .: !l ' ' At the beginning of the... | |
 | 1831 - 790 sivua
...of a diff'rent parish. J So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag diff rent ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 378 sivua
...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 fill...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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 sivua
...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 fill...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 Aikin - 1841 - 840 sivua
...moorlands of a different parish : So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So ce ihe way; These grave physicians with their milky...maid and dwindling beau repair; BOOK 1. GAY. Here row 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. 
