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
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...o'er 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, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 5 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1850 - 378 pages
...in front—but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. North. "So eagerly THE FIEKD O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Talloys. Finally I reached him—closed on him—when Eolus, or Euros, or Notus, or Favonius—for... | |
 | John Wilson - 1850 - 368 pages
...another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. North. "So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or sieep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And 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—for... | |
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...have usually applied to it Milton's description :— ' 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.' Of the enaliosauria, or sea-lizards, there are two principal types, both amply represented in the museum—the... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - Natural history - 1850 - 628 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 or steep, through strait, rough,dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades,... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...these discussions is that of IMiltnn's fiend floundering through chaos. He With head, hands, wing?, or feet, pursues his way ; And swims or sinks, or wades, or creep?, a O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, £/cjj¿e or rare, or flies." It does one's heart... | |
 | Francis Mason - Natural history - 1850 - 384 pages
...pet, which he describes as "Oier bog. or steep, through sirait, rouffh, dense or rare, Wilh ht:nil, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wadei, or creep.s, or flies.". In those days the jungle traveller was entertained at evening by the... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 632 pages
...hill or moory dale Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 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. 9fiO At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the... | |
 | Homer - Greek poetry - 1851 - 488 pages
..." They measured hill and dale, Right onward now, and now circuitous." Cf. Milton, PL ii. 948 :— " So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." 5 So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus umbras, capitis exuvias cape, laccrseque frontis accipe abscissam... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...discovery, in which the traveller, like Satan in Chaos : " O'er bog, o'er steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies," while peering curiously into the earth's mysteries, chanced to have his eyes gladdened by the sight... | |
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