 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
 | William Bridges Hunter - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 300 pages
...such lines in Paradise Lost as Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death (2.621). Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,...With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way. (2.948-89) In both authors the basic ten-syllable line is loaded as heavily as possiblewithout, however,... | |
 | M. J. S. Rudwick - History - 1992 - 302 pages
...for the 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,...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 - History - 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... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Poetry - 1993 - 162 pages
...elicits unclean locomotion. Satan "tread[s]" the "crude consistence, half on foot, / Half flying": So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait,...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ... (11.947-50) So too, when Satan appears on the outer shell of the created universe, he discovers... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...resonances which prefigure the Dunciad not only in reverse, as we should expect, but also directly, as when: So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait,...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies, (II. 94 7ff.) which Pope imitated and cited at Dunciad 11.63ff., describing Lintot who like ‘a dab-chick... | |
 | Robin Headlam Wells - Music - 1994 - 312 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stelth Had from his wakeful custody purloind The guarded Gold: so eagerly the Fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet persues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes .. . 21 A rather more subtle form... | |
 | Paul L. Mariani - Poets, American - 1994 - 558 pages
...pages of Gone with the Wind or ForeverAmber, 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... | |
 | Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 304 pages
...Through Chaos, nigh founder'd on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait,...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. To travel through Eden, (2.940-42, 947-50) Satan had journey'd on, pensive and slow; But further way... | |
 | J. M. I. Klaver - History - 1997 - 250 pages
...for the 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,...swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.” The features of these flying reptiles were easily associated with the evil spirits in Milton's poem.... | |
 | Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
...The result is a heightening of emphasis, a feeling of urgency and condensation: v - i - -1 ' ' r ' O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense or...rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way - i - - i - ' r - r Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death • r ' r il in The... | |
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