 | Jonathan Swift - 1744 - 416 pagine
...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 their Gaps ; And, o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. • BUT, though you mifs your third Effay* You... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 426 pagine
...ill-coupled hounds 17S Drag diff'rent ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps With favage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er inhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. ' »« B»T though you mifs your third eflay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now afide all thoughts... | |
 | 1905 - 726 pagine
...not 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 their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.' To the ancients Africa meant nothing but the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 558 pagine
...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 their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But, though you rniss your third essay,, You need... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 832 pagine
...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 their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But, though you miss your third essay, You need... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pagine
...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 their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But, though you miss your third essay, You need... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pagine
...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 their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But though you miss your third essay, You need... | |
 | 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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1828 - 454 pagine
...Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were not more witty than true : — .!." l» '• ' ' i " Geographers, in Afric maps, , With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." .i'; "• ' •' At the beginning of the sixteenth... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 620 pagine
...Spanish traveller, Leo Africanus. The rhymes of Swift on this subject were not more witty than true : " Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." ' At the beginning of the sixteenth century,... | |
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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. 
