 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...him. " He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, , with more than ordinary respect, an exquisitely...which has not been inserted in any of the collections ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and lus cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...modest and unaffected ' narration, to have described things as he saw ' them, to have copied nature from life, and to have ' consulted his senses, not his...with no basilisks, that destroy with their ' eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without ' tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rocks without... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - Ethiopia - 1830 - 560 pages
...fictions. He appears by his ' modest and unaffected narrative to have described ' things as he saw them, to have copied nature ' from the life, and to have...with no basilisks that destroy with ' their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without ' tears, and his cataracts fall from the rock without ' deafening... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...fictions. He appears by his modest and unaffected narrative 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 tear», and his cataracts lall from the rock without deafening... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...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 - 1833 - 1182 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...have described things as he saw them ; to have copied nature from the life ; and to have consulted hie orn ; his crocodiles devour their prey, without tears ; and lus 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... 
