 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 North American Review - Page 193edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold. So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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
...who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd • The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 466 pages
...progress of Julian, the lines which were originally designed for another apostate : So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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
...Arimaspian, who by stealth 94i Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...bead.] ' So eagerly tbe fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, through atreigbt, rough, dense, or rare, With bead, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' MILTON, Book II. Wf M With arms expanded Bernard rotes his state, And ltf& te&t'd Jacob seems to emulate.]... | |
 | 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
...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin' d The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 464 pages
...lines which were originally designed for another apostate.— — — — — So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flic>. of light brigantines,h as it lay at anchor ; secured CHAP. a supply of coarse provisions sufficient... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...guarded gold: so eagevlyAhe fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, \Vith 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 eonfus'd, Borne through the... | |
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