 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 sivua
...moorlands of a different parish: So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So e his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his...for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build t But, though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 sivua
...figures of deer were banished from the Green Park : — " So geographers, in Afric maps, With sarage pictures fill their gaps. And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." On the site of Apsley House stood a celebrated tavern, or better kind of public-house, called the Hercules... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 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. One of the happiest similes to be met with is in Green's poem on the Spleen. It is an allusion to the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 sivua
...have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps 2* With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. One of the happiest similes to be met with is in Green's poem on the Spleen. It is an allusion to the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 sivua
...have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps 2* With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. One of the happiest similes to be met with is in Green's poem on the Spleen. It is an allusion to the... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1851 - 574 sivua
...encountered. There is no question, that the northern half of Africa was better known to the Romans at the time of Julius Caesar, than to the Europeans in...the Niger ,but so imperfect were his descriptions evert of what he saw, that very little geographical knowledge was communicated by them. He was on the... | |
 | 1851 - 582 sivua
...correct in his quotation ? In a poem of Swift's, " On Poetry, a Rhapsody," are these lines: — " S > geographers, in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Sieift's Wjrki, with Notei by Or. Haicluieorlh, 1 767, vol vii. p. 214. C. DE D. " Trepidation talKd"... | |
 | 1851 - 568 sivua
...correct in his quotation ? In a poem of Swift's, "On Poetry, a Rhapsody," are these lines: — " S > geographers, in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Sialfft Work*, with Nota by Dr. Hawktiaorth, 1 767, vol. rii. p. 314. C. DE D. " Trepidation tal/fd"... | |
 | 1852 - 874 sivua
...moorlands of a different parish : So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So <CNDN NzNcI N O O+)4I But, though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 sivua
...moorlands of a diff'rent parish. 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... | |
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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. 
