 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
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...purloin'd 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 hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...shores of a turbulent planet. " 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." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...planet." - ------- "The fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, denss or rare, With bead, h;md, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." ' With nocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...purloin'd 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 hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...purloin'd 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 confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible And Geology - 1837 - 646 pages
...shores of a turbulent planet. " The Ftend, 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, Book II. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the have been about... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...celebrated journey described by Milton : O'er hog, 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. " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, U iih head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | Daniel Boileau - German language - 1837 - 268 pages
...book of his Paradise Lost, the latter has :— O'er bog or sleep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or wades, or creeps, or flies," &c. " So eagerly the fiend The German poet says:— " Wie doch ein Sterblicher... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...Aulularia, act iv. sc. 8. L p. 142. Plin. N. Hist lib. iv. c. 26. See Bulwert Artif. Changeling, p. 102. 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... | |
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