 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 Mississippi Valley: Its Physical Geography, Including Sketches of the ... - Page 5by John Wells Foster - 1869 - 443 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Mack - Cats - 1824 - 292 pages
...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 : At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 pages
...hands, and head,] " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Milton, Book ii. P. Full in the middle way there stood a lake, Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that morn... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...hands, and head,'} " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro" strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Full in the middle way there stood a lake, Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that morn to make: (Such was... | |
 | 496 pages
...nearly the facility of Milton's fiend who " O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." Jfistoirc de Jeanne d'Arc. Par M. LEBB.UN DE CHARMETTES. 4 8vo. Paris. Memoirs of Jeanne d'Arc, surnamed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...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 : 950 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 412 pages
...hands, and head,~\ " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Milton, Book ii. P. Full in the middle way there stood a lake, Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that mom... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rougit, denso, or rn . ly palaee gate, With frontispieee of diamond and gold Embellish'd ; thiek with spark ereeps, or flies : At length an universal-hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voiees all eonfus'd, Bome... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...with the exception of one word. "the fiend O'er bog or steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Chapman has the following characteristic lines on the apt fitness of the English monosyllables for... | |
 | Theology - 1834 - 692 pages
...controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or fltwqi, 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." Were we to adduce the most striking instance of the plastic nature of this kind of proof, we should... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend O'er hog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, 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 stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
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