 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 Seiten
...objects, that are every where thrusting themselves out to the eye, and endeavouring to become visible. Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans,...red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Afric. Strange ! that... | |
 | 1824 - 310 Seiten
...objects that are every where thrusting, themselves out to the eye, and endeavouring to become visible. Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans,...red lions; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. Strange! that... | |
 | 1836 - 932 Seiten
...objects that are every •where thrusting themselves out to the eye, and endeavouring to become visible. itable eloquence my fellow-labourers had exaggerated the armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. Strange! that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 Seiten
...objects that are every where thrusting themselves out to the eye, and endeavouring to become visible. Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans,...red lions; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. Strange! that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 Seiten
...weak and flimsy.—Davis, Chinese, vol. ii. p. 320.] (2) [" Our streets are filled with blue-boars, black swans, and red lions; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour. Strange! that one who has all the birds and beasts in nature to choose out of, should live... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 574 Seiten
...weak and flimsy. — Davis, Chinese, vol. ii. p. 320. ] (2) [" Our streets are filled with blue-boars, black swans, and red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour. Strange ! that one who lius all the birds and beasts in nature to choose out of, should live... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 Seiten
...objects that are every where thrusting themselves out to the eye, and endeavouring to become visible. t abounded in wit and learning. They were a list of words that rhyme to armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. Strange! that... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 574 Seiten
...Spectator also, and Addison, in the charming style peculiar to him, thus pleasantly attacks them : " Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans,...red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. My first task,"... | |
 | 1848 - 300 Seiten
...style peeuliar to him, thus pleasantly attaeks them : " Our streets are filled with blue boars, blaek swans, and red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other ereatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Afriea. My first task,"... | |
 | Brand - 1849 - 544 Seiten
...and Whistle, the George and Vulture, the Bolt in Tun, the Bear and Harrow, the Elephant and Castle. Our streets are filled with Blue Boars, Black Swans,...Red Lions, not to mention Flying Pigs and Hogs in Armour. ' Could you believe it ?' writes the Chinese philosopher, ' I have seen five Black Lions and... | |
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Our streets are filled with blue boars, black swans, and red lions ; not to mention flying pigs, and hogs in armour, with many other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa. 
