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 Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 631849Full view - About this book
| 1834 - 692 pages
...is doomed *vho will read all the older controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or fltwqi, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." Were we to adduce the most striking instance of the plastic nature of this kind of proof, we should... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...green. Those rare and solitary, these in flocks Pasturing at once, and in broad herbe upsprung. ifUtm. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait,...With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. Id. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight being the usual time of his going... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...and in broad herbs upsprung. Sfiltm. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rongh, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. id. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight being the usual time of his going... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...time to prosecute that gracious method, but forced him to a quicker and rougher remedy. Clarendon. The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, Pursues his way. Milton. Before the cloudy van, In the rvugh edge of battle ere it joined, Satan advanced.... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 045 Had from bis wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 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... | |
| 1831 - 404 pages
...9>atob.iefe bit ©telle onrcenbbat fant: ' ...... The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, with head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, aud swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. fo balte man Ьоф glauben folien, e« reare паф... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...dale, Pursues the 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,...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... | |
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