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
 | Edward Hitchcock - Geology - 1842 - 366 pages
...in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. 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. " The Fiend, Paradise Lost, Book 2. line 947. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air,... | |
 | John Milton - 1842 - 982 pages
...both oar and ¡ail. Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth, Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or i With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who, by stealth, Had, from his wakeful custody, purloin'd O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...depths darker than Erebus, and the bewildered and benighted reader is remorselessly made to follow, "O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues hi« And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or fliei : At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning... | |
 | Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1843 - 440 pages
...burrowing, and of flight; thus, like Milton's fiend, it is qualified for different elements, and " Through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues its way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With such diversified powers of attaining... | |
 | Education - 1844 - 728 pages
...meaning of " rose like an exhalation ?" Explain the words marked with numbers in the foregoing extract. " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : «*•**•**** So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he ;"... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...purloined The guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first born, Or of the Eternal coeternal... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - Geology - 1845 - 428 pages
...or crawled on the shores 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 6ocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
 | William HARRIS (of Halesowen.) - Castles - 1845 - 140 pages
...turhulent planet. The fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense or rare. With head, hand, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 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 Milton - 1846 - 640 pages
...The guarded gold: so eagerly the Fiend [rare, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies: At length a universal hubbub wild 051 Of stunmng sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the... | |
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