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
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 384 pages
...on, with shoulders, hands, and head'] ' So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, through streight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Wide as a windmill all his figure spread, With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, 67 And left-legg'd... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1851 - 608 pages
...ground ; thence many a league, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, "U'ith head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Nor are there wanting, to promote our sympathy, the qualities of acute perception, docility, mimicry,... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 656 pages
...ground; thence many a league, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With bead, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Nor are there wanting, to promote our sympathy, the qualities of acute perception, docility, mimicry,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Zoology - 1851 - 446 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... | |
 | English literature - 1924 - 152 pages
...broader questions of structure, and recall the apparent formlessness of The Dynasts, where the reader O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies; and add to that the labyrinthine windings of the tale of Lord Jim and the devastating disorders of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...and wings, &c.] Milton <Par. Lost, ii 947—5°>, —So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 66. Curl's Corinna] This name it seems was taken by one Mrs. T— <ie Thomas>, who procured some private... | |
 | Manitoba. Department of Education - Education - 1900 - 558 pages
...a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ! (d) O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. (e) - On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, The infernal doors, and on their... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...went at him right in front—but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, hands, wiugs, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...[2.932—38] So on he slogs: “behoves him now both Oare and Saile,” says the poet sarcastically: Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,...his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes. . . [2.948—50] At length he blunders into “a universal hubbub wilde” which represents... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz, Schwartz Regina M. - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...elicits unclean locomotion. Satan "tread[sj" 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 ... (II. 947-50) So too, when Satan appears on the outer shell of the created universe, he discovers... | |
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