 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 12by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 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 without tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 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 rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here... | |
 | James Bruce - 1860 - 442 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 rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 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 without tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 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 without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 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 will here... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 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 will here... | |
 | 1899 - 796 pages
...them. In the first published words of his friend Dr. Johnson, " 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 neighboring inhabitants." Wesley's humor is of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 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 rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants3. 'The reader will here... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 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 rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here... | |
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