 | Jerónimo Lobo - 1789 - 544 oldal
...meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with irremediable barrennefs, or blefled with fpontaneous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 oldal
...with no bafi" lifks, that deftroy with their eyes; his cro" codiles devour their prey, without tears ; and " his cataracts fall from the rock, without " deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The ** reader will here find no regions curfed with ** irremediable barrenaefs, or blefied with fpon"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 oldal
...him. " 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...meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his, cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 oldal
...him. ' 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...meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles shows. He says that in the dissertations alone an exact translation has been attempted.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 oldal
...him. ' 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...meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles shows. He says that in the dissertations alone an exact translation has been attempted.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 oldal
...contradict him. 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...meets with no basilisks tha,t destroy with their eyes; his * For an account of this book, see the Life of Dr JOHNION, by the Editor. Vot. II. A a crocodiles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 oldal
...have described things as he saw them ; to have " copied nature from the life ; and to have con" suited 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 oldal
...him. " He appeare 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...meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening... | |
 | 1807 - 474 oldal
...him, who cannot contradict him. He appears by his 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 discovers what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial enquirer, that whereever human... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 oldal
...fictions. 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...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... | |
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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... 
