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
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - Azores - 1839 - 506 pages
...his future terrestrial dominion. " Nigh founder'd, on he fares, O'er bog, or steep, through straits, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way." At length we escaped from this confused mass of rocks, (which, after all, requires nothing more than... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - Fossils - 1840 - 354 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,...his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics." Paradise Lost, Book 2. Line 947. " With flocks of suck-like creatures flying in the air, and... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1840 - 572 pages
...hill or moory dale 945 Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or...With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 950 And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...scrambled through chaos. You remember the passage? " The Fiend " O'er bog, or sleep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, " With head, hands, wings,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " At length, after a weary journey, we came in sight of Loch Ard, and here we parted with our guide,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 366 pages
...arrangement of words. " The fiend O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, \Vith head, hands, wings or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further specimensa, for every reader, though he may not previously have studied... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...very striking illustration of the effect to be gained by an artful and choice arrangement of words. " The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or leet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1841 - 494 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.' Paradise Lost, Book II. line 947. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - Fossils - 1841 - 554 pages
...crawled on th« •hores of a turbulent planet. " 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." Paradise Lost, Book 2. line 947. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...expenses; a person who is in narrow circumstances is represented as having bat a small extent of property. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues bis way. (МШоп'г PL) A faithless heart, how despicably small, Too tirait aught great or generous... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 457 pages
...hy stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 950 And swims, or sinks, or wades, or ereeps, or flies. At length a universal huhhuh wild Of stunning... | |
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