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| Scotland - 1849 - 844 pages
..." So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, bauds, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolns, or Eurus, or Notns, < Favonios —... | |
| John Wilson - 1850 - 378 pages
...front — but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. North. "So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." the gloom — sat down — as composedly as you would yourself, sir — on a knoll, in another region —... | |
| Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - Natural history - 1850 - 630 pages
...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...swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." The Arimaspians were Asiatic wizards, who, by magic, used to obtain a knowledge of the places where treasures... | |
| 1836 - 610 pages
...kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...[2.932-38] So on he slogs: "behoves him now both Oare and Saile," says the poet sarcastically: Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,...his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes . . . [2.948-50] At length he blunders into "a universal hubbub wilde" which represents the storm-center... | |
| Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...locomotion. Satan "tread[sj" the "crude consistence, half on foot, / Half flying": So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ... (II. 947-50) So too, when Satan appears on the outer shell of the created universe, he discovers... | |
| M. J. S. Rudwick - Art - 1992 - 302 pages
...kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. "The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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... | |
| Martin J. S. Rudwick - Art - 1995 - 298 pages
...reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. "The Fiend, O'er lx>g, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-Iike creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri... | |
| Claude Julien Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet pursucs his way. And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies, ;n.947^.) which Pope imitated and cited at Dunciad n.631!., describing Lintot who like 'a dab-chick... | |
| Paul L. Mariani - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 558 pages
...pages of Gone with the Wind or Forever Amber, where with head, hands, wings, or feet, this poor fiend pursues his way, and swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies; that all his happiest memories of Shakespeare seem to come from a high school production of As You... | |
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