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. The Paradise Lost - Page 92by John Milton - 1850 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues theArimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd ffies ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...o'er 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,...way, : And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flios ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who, by stealth, Had, from his wakeful custody, purloin'd O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 pages
...depths darker than Erebus, and the bewildered and benighted reader is remorselessly made to follow, " O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or...pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creep«, or flics : At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused,... | |
| 1843 - 678 pages
...discovery, in which the traveller, like Satan in Chaos : « O'er bog, o'er steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies," while peering curiously into the earth's mysteries, chanced to have his eyes gladdened by the sight... | |
| 1843 - 708 pages
...discovery, in which the traveller, like Satan in Chaos : * O'er bog, o'er eteep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or Шeе," while peering curiously into the earth's mysteries, chanced to have his eyes gladdened by the... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first born, Or of the Eternal coeternal... | |
| 1849 - 600 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 strait,...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 —... | |
| 1843 - 434 pages
...perdition." 'When he would make his verse tell of toil, in sound as well as sense, he speaks thus : " The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." A fine natural ear teaches the poet to attend to these points, and, without attention to them, versification... | |
| Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the sea, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. 'The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri... | |
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