...Hill or moory Dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from this wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded Gold: So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or...his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or ffies. (2.943—so) Physicaly, this description of Satan's material interaction with the ambiguous...

...by a mixture of asjndeton and brachylogia: 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 [...]. (FL 2: 947-50) The repetition imitates a physical effort that is exhausting and seemingly endless,...

...phonetically and semantically separates rapidly successive actions, all different: 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 (947-950). This episode, so insistently...

...a desperate scramble, using whatever part of his body he can: O'er hog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet pursues his way, And svs-ims or sinks, or vvades, or creeps, or flies. (II. As a pseudo-hero Satan is alvs'ays deflated...

...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...

...1.948-50, where, "Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare," it is the voyaging Satan who "pursues his way, / And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes"). But the key line about evil, which seems short, is actually too long by one syllable, as Roy...

...pages of Gone with the Wind or Forever Amber, where with head, hands, wings, or fret this poor fiend pursues his way, and swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flier, that all his happiest memories of Shakespeare seem to come from a high school production of...

...Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror. 64. Giblert, Postmodern Wetlands, 143. In Milton's Paradise Lost, the “Fiend,” O'er bog or steep. through strait,...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps. or flies. (Milton, Poetical Works i: 52, act a, lines ¿ 6¿. Ruskin contrasts flowing and stagnant water in...

...watch. Both express how an unhappy covetousness hinders the hoarders of sound sleep. [Hume] 948-49 Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,.../ With head, hands, wings or feet pursues his way. There is a memorable instance of the roughness of a road admirably described by a single verse in Homer,...

...mind not to leap forward to Milton's Satan ‘treading the crude consistence' between heaven and hell: So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait,...swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.” The conceptual parallel is surely coincidental; much further, tortuous history would separate the early...