 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. 950  Paradise Lost - Page 73by John Milton - 1896 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 446 pages
...companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the sea, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. 'The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...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... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1847 - 434 pages
...for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the Ħas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet." " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...purloin'd 950 O'er bog,or steep, through strait, rough,dense, or rare, Withhead, hands, wings, orfeet, pursues his way; And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length an universal hubbub wild 955 Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, With loudest vehemence.... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 474 pages
...hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who, by stealth, Had, from his wakeful custody, purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length, a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through the... | |
 | Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...ambition, and which impelled the enemy of mankind to overcome obstacles hitherto unsurmounted— " The Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ;" Whilst the baffling of the celestial guard that watched Eden, and the final accomplishment of the... | |
 | William Mills - 1848 - 104 pages
...following passage of Milton, PL ii. 947. " So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." \ 31. The following passage from Milton PL iii. 489 affords an example of words, not joined by Copulative... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...went at him right in front —but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him—closed on him—when Eolus, or Eurue, or Notus, or Favonius—for... | |
 | England - 1849 - 812 pages
...went at him right in front—but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. яовтн. O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." "So eagerly THE FIEND TALBOTS. Finally I reached him—closed on him—when Eolus, or Eums, or Notiis,... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 844 pages
...front—but such another flounder! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. “So eagerly Tur FIzriD O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.” TALBOYS. Finally I reached him—closed on him—when Eolus, or Eurus, or Notus, or Favonius—t'or... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...mihi turpe relinqui est.—Horat. de Arte. 1 So eagerly thejtend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' streipht, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, orJKes. MILTON, book ii. THE DUNCIAD. 347 With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd... | |
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