 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
 | England - 1840 - 520 pages
...Printer's Devil is never to walk—.he is always to make haste : no matter how ; he is " to make haste." " so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." porter to the brain—the go-between of author and the press—he may not lounge and tarry like a common... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...very striking illustration of the effect to be gained by an artful and choice arrangement of words. " The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further specimens*, for every reader, though he may not previously have studied... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...of Chaos ; " Nigh foundered on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot Half flying ; O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." The most objectionable, and, at the same time, to the reader who has a vein of sarcasm in him, the... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...scrambled through chaos. You remember the passage? " The Fiend " O'er hog, <"' steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, " With head, hands, wings,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " At length, after a weary journey, we came in sight of Loch Ard, and here we parted with our guide,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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 Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues theArimaspian, who by stealth Had from his true consent With plane!, or with element Sometime...Thebes' or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1841 - 446 pages
...Printer's Devil is never to walk — he is always to make haste; no matter how; he is "to make haste." " so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." And the conscientious, pains-taking Printer's Devil, on an errand for copy, is expected to emulate... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale 945 Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly...With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 950 And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1841 - 488 pages
...reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. 'The Fiend, O'er bag, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare. With...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, Book II. line 947. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - Fossils - 1841 - 372 pages
...or crawled on the chores of a turbulent planet. " The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, Book 2. line 947. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
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