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. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 43by John Milton - 1826 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 412 pages
...So lab'ring on with shoulders, hands, and head,~\ " 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." Milton, Book ii. P. Full in the middle way there stood a lake, Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that mom... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...So lab'ring on with shoulders, hands, and head,'} " 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." Full in the middle way there stood a lake, Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that morn to make: (Such was... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 pages
...So lab'ring on with shoulders, hands, and head,] " 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." Milton, Book ii. P. Full in the middle way there stood a lake, Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that morn... | |
| 496 pages
...she wanders with nearly the facility of Milton's fiend who " O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." Jfistoirc de Jeanne d'Arc. Par M. LEBB.UN DE CHARMETTES. 4 8vo. Paris. Memoirs of Jeanne d'Arc, surnamed... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...reWith winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 9*5 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly...O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or ran 1 , With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
| James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...three monosyllabic lines together, with the exception of one word. "the fiend O'er bog or steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Chapman has the following characteristic lines on the apt fitness of the English monosyllables for... | |
| Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...hill or moory dale, 944 Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, 952 Borne through... | |
| Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who, by stealth, Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. The Arimaspians were supposed Asiatic wizards, who, by strength of magic, used to obtain a knowledge... | |
| Theology - 1834 - 692 pages
...is doomed *vho will read all the older controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or fltwqi, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands,...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 of proof, we should... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...green. Those rare and solitary, these in flocks Pasturing at once, and in broad herbe upsprung. ifUtm. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait,...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... | |
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