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| Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...obstacles hitherto unsurmounted — " 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 ;" Whilst the baffling of the celestial guard that watched Eden, and the final accomplishment of the... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or (vet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Cuvier, in his great work, pronounces these flying reptiles the most extraordinary of all the beings... | |
| John Milton - 1849 - 650 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... | |
| England - 1849 - 812 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 —... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...Horat. de Arte. » So eagerty the fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' streight, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way....And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob seems to emulate '. And now as victor... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steop, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, appened in my time one noble speaker who was full...of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolus, or Eurue, or Notus, or Favonius —... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 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 —... | |
| Scotland - 1849 - 844 pages
..." So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, bauds, 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 Eolns, or Eurus, or Notns, < Favonios —... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...to tlu; Pterodactyl : "Theftend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense. or rare, With hoad, hands, wings or feet, pursues his way ; And swims, or sinks, or wados, or creeps, or flies." It is highly descriptive of the varied powers of locomotion possessed... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1850 - 624 pages
...apostate: — — -So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,...swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " In tha , interval the Notitia places two or three fleets, the Lauriacensis, (at Lauriacum, or Lorch,)... | |
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