 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
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er hog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, A nd swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ; 050 At length, a universal huhhuh wild Of stunning... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1835 - 176 pages
...controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With bead, hands, wings or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." Were we to adduce the most striking instance of the plastic nature of this kind... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pages
...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, dense,...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... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...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, dense,...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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 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, or...feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 pages
...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, dense,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 348 pages
...945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold; So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog,orsteep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...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... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pages
...intelligent mind, Milton's celebrated description of Satan's flight : " O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Eloquence as well as poetry has also contributed its share of misguided exertion,... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...planet." - ------- "The fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, denss or rare, With bead, h;md, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." ' With nocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 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, 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 confused,... | |
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