 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.  The North American Review - Page 193edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
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...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or...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... | |
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 | John Milton - 1836 - 348 pages
...945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold; So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog,orsteep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 950 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused Borne through the... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pages
...intelligent mind, Milton's celebrated description of Satan's flight : " 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." Eloquence as well as poetry has also contributed its share of misguided exertion, in which labor has... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...planet." - ------- "The fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, denss or rare, With bead, h;md, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." ' With nocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
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...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or...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 Buckland - 1837 - 476 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,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, Book If. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or...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... | |
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...will accomplish a task, not a little resembling a celebrated journey described by Milton : O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us... | |
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...guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, U iih head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 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... | |
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