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: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ... - Page 50by John Milton, Edward Young - 1848Full view - About this book
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...sail. As when a Griffon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild 95 1 Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...stealth I hut from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold i so eagerly the fiend O'er hug, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universa4 huhhuh wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...sail. As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful...universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear With loudest vehemence : thither he plies,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 466 pages
...might apply to the progress of Julian, the lines which were originally designed for another apostate : So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. of light brigantines *, as it lay at anchor ; secured CHAP. a supply of coarse provisions sufficient... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 94i Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild 951 Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, 13orne through... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 612 pages
...for the 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,...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... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...monosyllabick lines together, with the exception of one word ; , , '. „ " the fiend O'er bog or steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics." GRAMMAR. In a little treatise upon the Greek Accents, published in 1629, by Master R. Franklin,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 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 : At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...wilderness With winged course, o'er bill or meory dale, Pursues theArimaspian, who byitcalth Had from bis wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly...rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet purs«cs fail way, [1i*« : And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creepy, or At length a universal hubbub... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dak, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded...bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, [way, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues hi* And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies... | |
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