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 50by John Milton - 1826 - 350 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1849 - 812 pages
...went at him right in front — but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. "So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolus, or Eurus, or Notus, or Favonius —... | |
| 1849 - 602 pages
...another flounder! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steop, to judge of his pretensions. " There happened in...of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolus, or Eurue, or Notus, or Favonius —... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...turpe relinqui est. — Horat. de Arte. » So eagerty the fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' streight, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob seems to emulate '. And now as victor... | |
| John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 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 hollow... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 704 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...way; And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics. At length an universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through... | |
| Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 pages
...hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who, by stealth, Had from his wakeful custody purloin' d The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend, O'er bog...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." The Arimaspians were Asiatic wizards, who, by magic, used to obtain a knowledge of the places where... | |
| John Wilson - 1850 - 378 pages
...went at him right in front — but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. North. "So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." the gloom — sat down — as composedly as you would yourself, sir — on a knoll, in another region... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 618 pages
...which were originally designed for another apostate : — So eagerly the fiend, O'er bo(r, or ateep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 31 In that interval the Notitia places two or three fleets, the Lauriacensis, (at Lauriacum, or Lorch,)... | |
| 1850 - 516 pages
...Шпе11 ; ond y mae hyn wodi ci golli yii y cyfieithiad. Drachefn : — MILTON : llyfr ii. llin. 947. " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And ewime, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." PUGHE : tudal. 62. " Cymaint aweh y Mallt, Tros gors,... | |
| David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...have usually applied to it Milton's description :— ' 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.' Of the enaliosauria, or sea-lizards, there are two principal types, both amply represented in the museum—the... | |
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