 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...them from the fky? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages...of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...from the Iky ? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages...of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...from the fky ? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor leas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages...of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with jrrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...could afford any 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 was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...from the fky ? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages...of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happineis, might be violated by the fudden defcent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...from the fky ? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages...of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent... | |
 | 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 was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...security. A flight qf northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of, a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 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 was rolling under them. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent... | |
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But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the... 
