 This Traveller has consulted his senses and not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants....  Lives of Men of Letters of the Time of George III. - Stran 311avtor: Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 438 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 strani
...life, and to have confulted his fenfes, not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his * For an account of this book, fbc the Life of Dr. Jobn/oa t by the Editor. cataracts fall from the... | |
 | Jerónimo Lobo - 1789 - 544 strani
...life; and to have confulted his fenfes not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with... | |
 | Jeronymo Lobo - 1789 - 518 strani
...life ; and to have confulted his fenfes not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 strani
...described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles shows. He says that in the dissertations alone an exact translation has been attempted. The rest of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles shows. He says that in the dissertations alone an exact translation has been attempted. The rest of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 strani
...described things as be saw them; to have " copied nature from the life; and to have con" suited bis senses, not his imagination. He "meets with no basilisks,...prey, " without tears; and his cataracts fall from the "rock, without deafening the neighbouring in" habitants. The reader will here find no re"gions cursed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 strani
...described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his * For an account of this book, see the Life of Dr ION, by the Editor. VOL. II. Aa ' crocodiles devour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 strani
...his senses, not * For an account of this book, see the Life of Dr Johnson prefixed to this edition. his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy...prey without tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed -with... | |
 | James Bruce - 1813 - 534 strani
...Fazulo et Ombarca," are proofs * This is the discovery which Dr Johnson celebrates in these words: " He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their...prey without tears-; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants." Vide Pref. to his Translation. Dr Johnson affirms... | |
 | James Bruce - 1813 - 518 strani
...described things as he saw them ; to have copied nature from the life; and to have consuited his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; and his cataracts fall from the rock, without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants." At first reading... | |
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