 | Victoria Dickenson - 1998 - 344 стор.
...seventeenth-century satiric poem, suggested that So Geographers in Afric-Maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns.35 The noted cartographic historian Wilma George is the authority for the depiction of animals... | |
 | William S. Pollitzer - 1999 - 344 стор.
...people, history, culture, and language. PART 2 WHERE THEY CAME FROM CHAPTER 3 ® THE DARK CONTINENT . . . geographers, in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. — Jonathan Swift, "On Poetry, A Rhapsody" Sheer size, inhospitable climate, forbidding deserts, insects... | |
 | Norman Joseph William Thrower - 1999 - 346 стор.
...evoked Jonathan Swift's wellknown satirical comment: So Geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage-pictures fill their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. (On I'oetr-\; line il 17) A detailed and accurate map of France in multiple sheets and employing uniform... | |
 | Bruce McLeod - 1999 - 304 стор.
...poetry by referring to the tricks of cartographers: "So Geographers in Afric-Maps / With SavagePictures fill their Gaps; / And o'er unhabitable Downs / Place Elephants for want of Towns" (lines 177-80: Writings). Similarly "A Statesman, [and] a South-Sea Jobber" (162) use subterfuge to... | |
 | Daniel R. Headrick - 2000 - 246 стор.
...Count, 99—102; Eyler, Victorian Social Medicine, 45—60. DISPLAYING INFORMATION Maps and Graphs So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. JONATHAN SWIFT, "On Poetry" NOT AIL THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE CULTURE OF INFORMATION WERE members... | |
 | Jack Sislian - 2000 - 120 стор.
...THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION AND A COMMITTEE OF PUBLISHERS. Printed in the United States of America With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs, Place elephants for want of towns." (Jonathan Swift) To my Black African Students, Colleagues and Friends who taught me so much when I... | |
 | Roger Little - 2001 - 312 стор.
...primarily a space to be filled, as Swift observed by comparing it with epithets in a line of verse: So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.71 What filled the gaps depended entirely on the point of view adopted, and these polarised as... | |
 | Susan Schulten - 2001 - 334 стор.
...towns" refers to Jonathan Swifr's much-quoted verse: So Geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage-pictures fill their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. The practice of filling blank spots on the map with animals and other descriptive text had begun to... | |
 | J. B. Harley - 2002 - 356 стор.
..."Decorative Maps," Studio 128 (1944): 161-69. 97. So Geographers in Afric-Mzps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. — Jonathan Swift, On Poetry: A Rhapsody "Savage-Pictures," "Elephants," and a "want of Towns" (towns... | |
 | Tahir Shah - 2003 - 288 стор.
...SEARCH OF KING SOLOMON'S MINES Ali Baba's Map 'So geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage-pictures fill their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.' Jonathan Swift, 'A Rhapsody' AN INKY HAND-DRAWN map hung on the back wall of Ali Baba's Tourist Emporium.... | |
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So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. 
