 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...scythe, and levelled by the roller." " He 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 the neighbouring inhabitants." 1 " But it is a sad thing to pass through the... | |
 | English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...absurdities or romantic fictions. . . . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his...rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will find here no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous... | |
 | Philip Dodd - British - 1982 - 184 pages
...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...fall from the Rock without Deafening the Neighbouring Inhabitants.20 Lobo's/rineran'o with its slower building towards the successful entry into Abyssinia.... | |
 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...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 Neighboring Inhabitants."4 Legrand, however, is scolded by the British translator for his bias against... | |
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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... 
