| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...fecrecy, and waited for the performance, not wholly hopeleff lefs of fuccefs. He vifited the work from time to time, obferved its progrefs, and remarked... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft of the fouthern.fea." The prince promifed fccrecy, and waited for the performance, not wholly hopelefs of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that iwarm on the coaft of the fouthern fea." The prince promifed fecrecy, and waited for the performance,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that /warm on the coaft of the fouthern fea." The prince promifed fecrecy, and waited for the performance,... | |
| English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...once with irreliftiblc violcnceupon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Evun this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the В г RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABIS5INIA. ' fudden dcfcent of fome of the naked the wiM beads and the tame... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...performance, not wholly hopelefs of fuccefs. He vifited the work from time tor time, obferved its progrefs, and remarked many ingenious contrivances to facilitate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happineis, might be violated by the fudden defcent of foine of the naked nations that fwarm on the... | |
| George Adams - Science - 1794 - 540 pages
...fecurity ; a flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.' " The prince promifed fecrecy, and waited for the performance, not wholly hopelefs of fuccefs; he vilitedthe... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...performance, not wholly hopelefs of fuccefs. He vifited the work from time to time, obferved its progrefs, and remarked many ingenious contrivances to facilitate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
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