 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 404 pages
...with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. '...no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...have 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...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. ' The reader will here find no regions cursed... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 602 pages
...with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. "...sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...though not, as has been carelessly stated, in his more pompous manner. We give an example of it : " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable...sunshine ; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues. Here are no Hottentots... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1923 - 430 pages
...speculation Wesley describes things as he saw them. In the first published words of his friend Dr. Johnson, " he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants." Wesley's humour is of the species donnish, and... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1923 - 430 pages
...speculation Wesley describes things as he saw them. In the first published words of his friend Dr. Johnson, " he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants." Wesley's humour is of the species donnish, and... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...though not, as has been carelessly stated, in his more pompous manner. We give an example of it : " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable...sunshine ; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues. Here are no Hottentots... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...congratulation." " Pope's [page] is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller." " He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants." 1 " But it is a sad thing to pass through the... | |
 | English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...of his country men, has amused his reader with no romantic absurdities or romantic fictions. . . . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their...deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will find here no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...have 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...devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall trom the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. "The reader will here find no regions... | |
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He appears by bis modest and unaffected narration to have 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... 
