 The guarded gold : so eagerly 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 flies...  Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses - Page 72by John Ferriar - 1812Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryfon through the wilderness With winged course o'er hill...moory dale Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep,... | |
 | Richard John King - Fairies - 1840 - 128 pages
...had its birth, and tell how " the Gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth, Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold; * * * * but there appear numerous reasons why we should assign a Celtic... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...Treading the crude consistence, — half on foot,: — Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged...from his 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...fares. Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail. theArimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Treading the crude consistence, — half on foot,— Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale 945 Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 368 pages
...and the company sitting down around it did ample honour to the contents of the basket. CHAPTER XVIII. As when a Gryphon through the wilderness. With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1843 - 722 pages
...Prior's Oak, and the company sitting down around it, did ample honour to the contents of the basket. As when a Gryphon through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail. : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 448 pages
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