 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 184 pages
...diftribution of the feafons : the fun has liftened to my dictates, and pafied from tropick to tropick by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured...waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command j I have reftrained the rage of the dogftar, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...diftribution of the feaions : the fun has liftened to my dictates, and parted from tropick to tropick by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured...and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have rcftrained the rage of the dog-ftar, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone, of all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...diftribution of the feafons : the fun has liftened to my dictates, and parted from tropick to tropick by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured...and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have reftrained the rage of the dog-ftar, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone, of all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...feafbns : the fun has liftened to my dictates, and paffed from tropick to tropick by my direction j the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have reftrained the rage of the dog-ftar, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone, of all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...diftribution of the feafons : the fun has liftened to my dictates, and pafiefl from tropick to tropick by my direction; the clouds, at my call, have poured...and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have reftrained the rage of the dogftar, ftar, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...diftribution of the feafons : the fun has liftened to my dictates, and pafled from tropick to tropick by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured...and the Nile has overflowed at my command; I have reftrained the rage of the dog-ftar, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone, of all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...fun has liftened to my dictates, and pafled from tropick to tropick by my direction ; the clouds, aŁ my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have reftrained the rage of the dog.ftar, and mitigated the fervours of the. crab. The winds alone, of all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...diftribution of the feafons: the fun has liftened to my dictates, and pafled from tropick to tropick by my direction; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile ha* overflowed at my command ; I have reftrained the rage of the dog.ftar, and mitigated the fervours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...possessed for five years the regulation of weather, and the distribution of the seasons: the sun ha& listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to...waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command: 1 have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...seasons : the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropick to tropick by ray direction f the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters,...restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone, of all the elemental powers, have hitherto refused my authority,... | |
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Hear, Imlac, what thou wilt not without difficulty credit. I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather, and the distribution of the seasons ; the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the... 
