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 Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 78by John Milton - 1852Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...creeps, or flies : 959 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear With...power Or Spirit of the nethermost abyss Might in that ncise reside, of whom to ask Which way the nearest coast of darkness lies Bord'ring on light; when... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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, or rare, With...creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild 95 1 Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear With... | |
| 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...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 dark, assaults... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...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, or rare, With...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
...Julian, the lines which were originally designed for another apostate : So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...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
...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, or rare, With...creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild 951 Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd, 13orne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear With... | |
| 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
...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, or rare, With...universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear With loudest vehemence : thither he plies,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 464 pages
...which were originally designed for another apostate.— — — — — So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...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 Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O er bog, ves invaded next, and on their heads Main promontories...shadowing, and oppress'd whole legions arm'd ; [bruis'd confus'd, Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear With loudest vehemence : thither he plies,... | |
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