 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, и ml his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening...inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey...inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey...inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing... | |
 | 1835 - 428 pages
...life, and to have consulted his senses, 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 rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " These round, rigmarole sentences were rolled... | |
 | 1835 - 428 pages
...consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, bis crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants." These round, rigmarole sentences were rolled... | |
 | James Boswell - 1837 - 616 pages
...lite, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey...inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or bleat with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...life; and to have consulted his senses, 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 rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader here will find no regions cursed with... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey...inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...Traveller has consulted his senses and not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey...inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceasing... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 332 pages
...consulted his senses and not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; hie crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his...from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inbabitants. The reader here will find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with... | |
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He appears by his 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... 
