...Rubruquis, and the subsequent Chinese improvements on their carts: — "As when a vnlture on Imans bred, "Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,...lambs or yeanling kids On hills where flocks are fed, flics tow'rds the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams, But in his way lights on the barren...

...lucid here gives to the idea all the sparkling eifect of the mo»t perfect landscape. And again : " As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge...region scarce of prey, To gorge the flesh of lambs and yearling Kids On hills where flocks are fed, flits toward the spring• Of Ganges or Hydaspes,...

...the solar system, when he walked at large, as in a spacious field, through the Limbo of Vanity j " As when a vulture on Imaus bred Whose snowy ridge...bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey To. £urge the flesh of lambs or yoaailiiig kids On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs...

...imagination. 778. Cp. Gray (of Milton) :— ' He that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy ' As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,' &c. Par. Lost, Bk. III. 11. 431, 432. Taunis. A mountain range in Asia Minor. Imaus. The Himalayas,...

...vex'd with tempest loud : Here walked the fiend at large in spacious fieT> As when a vulture, on Imaiis bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,...prey, To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids, On hilla where flocks are fed, flies towards the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams ; But in...

...with tempest loud : Here walked the Fiend at large in spacious field. 430 As when a vulture on Imaiis bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,...lambs or yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flics toward the springs r BOOK III. 73 Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian strenms ; But in his way lights...

...with tempest loud. Here walked the Fiend at large in spacious field. 430 As when a vulture, on I mans bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scaree of prey, To gorge the flesh of Iambs or yeanling kids On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward...

...romantic names found in the ancient charts, might almost have been stated in the language of Milton : " As when a vulture, on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge...yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flies towards the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams ; But in his way lights on the barren plains...

...field. 430 As when a Vultur on Imaus bred, Whose snowie ridge the roving Tartar hounds, I Hslodging from a Region scarce of prey To gorge the flesh of...Flocks are fed, flies toward the Springs Of Ganges or Jfydaspes, Indian streams ; But in his way lights on the barren plaines Of Sericana, where Chineses...

...lucid here gives -to the idea all the sparkling effect of the most perfect landscape. And again — "As when a vulture, on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge...region scarce of prey, To gorge the flesh of lambs and yeanling kids On hills where flocks are fed, flies towards the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian...