 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.  Notes of a twelve years' voyage of discovery in the first six books of the Eneis - Page 32by James Henry - 1853Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swhr.s, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : 959 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Pursues the 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,...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 95 1 Of stunning... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...'vtlb xbitulders, hands, and head,^ « sc eagerly the Fiend " O'er bog, o'erstecp, thro' straight, rough, dense, or rare, " With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, " And swims, or sinks, or wade.:, orcreeps, or flies." Mi::an, Book II, With arms expanded Bernard... | |
 | 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 head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universa4 huhhuh wild Of stunning sounds,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Pursues the 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,...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 466 pages
...might apply to the progress of Julian, the lines which were originally designed for another apostate : So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through...With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. of light brigantines *, as it lay at anchor ; secured... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Pursues the 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,...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 951 Of stunning... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 612 pages
...for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...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... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 444 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, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics." GRAMMAR. In a little treatise upon the Greek Accents,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...dale, Pursues the 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,...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... | |
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