 | James Parkinson - Paleontology - 1804 - 518 pages
...large stock of entertainment, with a full share of the marvellous. Assure him, that he shall hear -Of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heaven. Shakspearc. Tell him, I hope his faith will be comprehensive enough to enable him to receive, with... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1805 - 572 pages
...large stock of entertainment, with a full share of the marvellous. Assure him that he .ii.,1! hear -Of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heaven. Shaispearc. Tell him, I hope his faith will be comprehensive enough to enable Lim to receive, with... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...and told king David." Note 28, stanza ii. Her hint is now to sing adventures strange. " Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle. Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak." Shakespeare, Othello. Note 29, stanza iii. To our Arcadia late there came... | |
 | Oratory - 1822 - 116 pages
...foe, And sold to slavery: of my redemption thence, And with it all my travel's history: Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heav'n, It was my bent to speak—All these to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline, But still the... | |
 | Phrenology - 1824 - 720 pages
...Munchausen—a liar of the first magnitude. Ferdinand Mindez Pinto was but a type of him. He will tell you " Of antres vast, and deserts idle, " Rough quarries, rocks and hills, whose heads touch heav'n ; " And of the cannibals that each other eat— " Do grow beneath their shoulders." If he has... | |
 | University of Cambridge - College verse - 1833 - 258 pages
...foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, such was the process ; And of the cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi,... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 570 pages
...out of old story-books, made himself the hero, and appropriated all the adventures—he says, " Of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, such was the process; And of the cannibals that each other eat, The anthropophagi,... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 568 pages
...out of old story-books, made himself the hero, and appropriated all the adventures—he says, " Of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It waa my hint to speak, such was the process ; And of the cannibals that each other eat, The anthropophagi,... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 618 pages
...of old story-books, made himself the hero, and appropriated all the adventures—he says, ^ _ " Of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, such was the process; And of the cannibals that each other eat, The anthropophagi,... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - American wit and humor - 1835 - 272 pages
...out of old story-books, made himself the hero, and appropriated all the adventures—he says, " Of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, such was the process; And of the cannibals that each other eat, The anthropophagi,... | |
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