 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 sivua
...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 fill...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... | |
 | E. E. Hale - 1882 - 310 sivua
...map-makers, in their pride, swept all of this work out." Mabel quoted — " So geographers, in Afric's maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." The quotation pleased Uncle Fritz. " Yes," he said, pointing to the old map, "here are elephants, and... | |
 | 1882 - 586 sivua
...was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric map* With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er 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 - 922 sivua
...who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said : "So geographers in Afric maps Vith savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 sivua
...More than your force move us to gentleness. 1906 Shaks. : As You Like. It. Act ii. Sc. 7 GEOGRAPHY. Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. 1907 Swift : On Poetry. A Rhapsody. Line 177. GHOSTS — see Spirits. Avaunt ! and quit my sight !... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1883 - 308 sivua
...map-makers, in their pride, swept all of this work out." Mabel quoted — " So geographers, in Afric's maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." The quotation pleased Uncle Fritz. " Yes," he said, pointing to the old map, " here are elephants,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sivua
...friend, A river at my garden's end. Imitation of Horace. Book 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. fottry, a Rhapsody. Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.... | |
 | 1885 - 452 sivua
...natural element, in fine, that a good old middleage map should be reproduced. " So geographers in Afrio maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er...unhabitable downs, Place elephants for want of towns." Mr. Ruskin's ideas go at least on all-fours— fors clavigera, of course, we mean — : whereas Mr.... | |
 | William Leonard Hunt - 1886 - 552 sivua
...unnaturally bare state— and to overlook the grass. Or was it the old storv of— Geographers on Afric's maps With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns 1 Every now and then we would ride up the highest sand-hills, with the double object of surprising... | |
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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. 
