 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 351851Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...guarded gold: so eagevlyAhe fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, \Vith head, hands, wings, or 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 eonfus'd, Borne through the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...eagerly the fiend, O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, , With head, hands, wingsi, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. signed to embark his troops on the Danube. By a CHAP. well-concerted stratagem, he seized a fleet of... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pages
...knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolns, or Eurus, or Notus, or Favonius —... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...purloinM The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or 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 confue'd, Borne through the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, tories flung, which in the air Came shadowing, and oppress'd whole legions arm'd ; [bruis'd , At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend 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: At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 394 pages
...hands, and head,} " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' streight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Milton, Book ii. W. Ver. 67, 68. With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob seems... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 pages
...hands, and head. ' So eagerly the f1end O'er bog, o'er steep, through streight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' MILTON, Book 11. KM With arms expanded Bernard rows his slate, And left-legg'd Jacob seems to emulate.\... | |
 | 1915 - 632 pages
...in the same way — are so tossed up and down in almost infinite chaos that the perplexed critic ' With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies,' yet, perhaps, such general remarks as have been made may afford some guiding clue ; while happily,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 390 pages
...and head,] • " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' streight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Milton, Book ii. W. Ver. 67, 68. With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob seems... | |
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