 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 Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...theArimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend @ or creeps, or ffies ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd,... | |
 | 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,...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,... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...command of heaven's all-powerful King " they had been appointed to keep ; how he then pursued his way " O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies'' II. 949. through the dark " Illimitable ocean,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 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,...feet pursues 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 - 1988 - 160 pages
...locomotion. Satan "tread[sj" the "crude consistence, half on foot, / Half flying": 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 ... (II. 947-50) So too, when Satan appears on the outer shell of the created universe,... | |
 | M. J. S. Rudwick - 1992 - 302 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... | |
 | Martin J. S. Rudwick - 1995 - 298 pages
...reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. "The Fiend, O'er lx>g, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-Iike creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 pages
...Dunciad not only in reverse, as we should expect, but also directly, as when: So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet pursucs his way. And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies, ;n.947^.) which Pope imitated and... | |
 | Robin Headlam Wells - 1994 - 312 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stelth Had from his wakeful custody purloind The guarded Gold: so eagerly the Fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet persues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes . . .21 A rather more subtle form... | |
 | Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 304 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stelth Had from his wakeful custody purloind The guarded Gold: So eagerly the fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,...feet pursues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes. (2.943-50) At one level, this description foreshadows Satan's later entropic descent... | |
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