 The fiend, 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.  Museum of Foreign Literature and Science - Page 47edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...custody purloin'd •The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend *^'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, -^nd swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : 950 -At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold. So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies: At length a universal hubbub wild 951 Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : 950 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 608 pages
...body are modified so as to fit the entire animal machine for the functions of flight.'—pp. 221-225. O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | 1851 - 606 pages
...surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Nor arc there wanting, to promote our sympathy, the qualities of acute perception, docility,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...his way And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, [way. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or height,... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 240 pages
...custody purloin' J •• 60 PARADISE LOST. B< OVr bog, or sleep, through strait, rough, dense, or rar With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : Atleng-th a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
 | 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... | |
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