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| Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...well as sense, he speaks thus : " 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." A fine natural ear teaches the poet to attend to these points, and, without attention to them, versification... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...knew fatigue. NORTH. " 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." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolus, or Eurus, or Notus, or Favonius —... | |
| Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 444 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... | |
| Theology - 1837 - 548 pages
...celebrated journey described by Milton : 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. " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...purloined 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. MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first born, Or of the Eternal coeternal... | |
| Theology - 1850 - 528 pages
..." So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, haude, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." PUGHE : tudal. 62. " Cymaint awch y Mallt, Tros gore, tros allt, trwy gul, garw, dwys, neu dacn, Gan... | |
| Villemain (M.) - French literature - 1846 - 464 pages
...nature, dans ses romans, plus contagieux que ses traités, 1 With head, nands, wings, or feel persues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. dans sa Promenade du Sceptique, dans son Rêve de d'Alcmbert, cynique ébauche où le matérialisme... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1847 - 434 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." Paradise Lost. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 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 flics." Milton, Book ii.— P. With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob seems... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 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 confused, Borne through the... | |
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