 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 sidor
...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... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 sidor
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 sidor
...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 that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 sidor
...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 - 1889 - 574 sidor
...— I " 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 - 1890 - 568 sidor
...contradict him. "He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, my manuscript, and make such remarks as were greatly his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 sidor
...contradict him. " He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, he original languages ; with what diligence and success...sufficient evidence. He once endeavoured to add the knowl his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 sidor
...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 - 1904 - 1590 sidor
...him. ' He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening... | |
 | 1925 - 638 sidor
...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 find here no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous... | |
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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... 
