 O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics.  The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence - Page 201839Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swhr.s, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : 959 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...'vtlb xbitulders, hands, and head,^ « sc eagerly the Fiend " O'er bog, o'erstecp, thro' straight, rough, dense, or rare, " With head, hands, wings,...or feet, pursues his way, " And swims, or sinks, or wade.:, orcreeps, or flies." Mi::an, Book II, With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...monosyllabick lines together, with the exception of one word ; , , '. „ " the fiend O'er bog or steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics." GRAMMAR. In a little treatise upon the Greek Accents, published in 1629, by Master R. Franklin,... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...byitcalth Had from bis wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet purs«cs fail way, [1i*« : And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creepy, or At length a universal hubbub... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 464 pages
...were originally designed for another apostate.— — — — — So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flic>. of light brigantines,h as it lay at anchor ; secured CHAP. a supply of coarse provisions sufficient... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 568 pages
...for a safe and easy transit across ' the palpable obscure' of ancient legends, and must once more ' O'er bog, o'er steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursue our way.' In the few strictures which we have ventured to offer on the Newtonian, as contrasted... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - Animals - 1818 - 420 pages
...from his wakeful custody pnrloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend, • O'er bog or stoep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, Aud swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." p. LB ,,, v. 943. The Arimaspians were supposed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 460 pages
...originally designed for another apostate J So eagerly the fiend, O.er bog, or steep, through strait, rongh, dense, or rare With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, Ami swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. of light brigantines,k as it lay at anchor ; secured... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, A ml swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild 951 Of stunuing... | |
 | 1823 - 564 pages
...the various modes of operation by which great qualities accomplish great enterprises. ' O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, ' With head, hands, wings or feet, pursue their way ; ' And swim, or sink, or wade, or creep, or fly. ' Paradise Lost, II. * XII. ' Prices... | |
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