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Nor will the breaft where fancy glotn Deem every flower a weed that blows Amid the defart plain.

A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1794

There is alfo a pleafure which muff, I think, arife in every mind, on feeing the defart become a fruitful field, and the wil - dernefs bloffoming as the rofe.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

Boswell* "Sometimes I have been in the humour of wifliing to retire to a defart."

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... 1791

Some inftances of this we met with in the country between Arguna, where we enter the Mtif* covite dominions, and a city of Tartars and Ruffians together, called Nertzirijkay; in which fpace is a continued defart or foreft, which coft us twenty days to travel over it.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Of York, Mariner. Who Lived Eight ... 1790

About three hours after, when we were entered upon a defart of about fifteen or fixteen miles over, be - hold, by a cloud of duft they raifed, we faw an enemy was at hand; and they were at hand indeed, for they came on upon the fpur.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Of York ... 1790

The trade-lhip left his ftreams; the merchant fhunn'd His defart borders; each ingenious art.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

Aud finds all defart noiu \ and meets the ghofts Of my departed joys; a numerous train!

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

We were all this while in the Chinefe dominions, and therefore the Tartars were not fo bold as after - wards; but in about five days we entered a vaft great wild defart, which held us three days and nights march; and we were obliged to carry our water with us in great leather bottles, and to encamp all night, juft as I have heard they do in the defarts of Arabia.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Of York ... 1790

This is the defart, thU the folitude: lir How populous, how vital, is the grave!

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

From this city we had a frightful defart, which held us three-and*twenty days march.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Of York, Mariner. Who Lived Eight ... 1790