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. A hundred wonders of the world in nature and art, ed. by J. Small - Page 273edited by - 1876 - 607 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...and in broad herbs upsprung. Sfiltm. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rongh, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. id. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight being the usual time of his going... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stealth 045 Had from bis wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 950 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 pages
...progress of Julian, the line* which were originally designed for another apostate. So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And awiau, or sinks, or wades, or creep», or flies. or of the barbarians, and at length emerged between... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the Fiend O'er hog, or steep, tbrough strait, rough, dense, or ran . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies: At length a universal huhhuh wild Of stuuning sounds and voices -all confused,... | |
| 1831 - 404 pages
...9>atob.iefe bit ©telle onrcenbbat fant: ' ...... The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, with head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, aud swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. fo balte man Ьоф glauben folien, e« reare паф... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...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,...feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd,... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 328 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 Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd,... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...pursues his way, And swims , or sinks , or wades, or creeps , or flies : 950 At length, a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds , and voices all confus'il,... | |
| John Laurance - 1835 - 152 pages
...which swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet."* " The fiend O'er bdg, of steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or trades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, book 2. Insects, it is imagined, were the ibocl of the... | |
| Henry Ustick Onderdonk - 1835 - 296 pages
...unsatisfactory toil he is doomed who will read all the older controversies on Episcopacy. There he, '' O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands, wings or teet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Were we to adduce the most... | |
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