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
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 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...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal huhhuh wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 468 pages
...might apply to the progress of Julian, the line* which were originally designed for another apostate. So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through...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, Borne tbrough the hollow... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...wilderness 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 ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
| 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, Borne through the hollow... | |
| John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...wilderness 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...O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or ran - , With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
| 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...universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds , and voices all confus'il, Urn ne through the hollow dark , assaults his car With loudest vehemence ; thither he plies,... | |
| John Laurance - Geology - 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... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...wilderness 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. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
| 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 - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...for the 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,...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 ichthyosauri... | |
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