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The British poets, including translations - Page 197
by British poets - 1822
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or ran 1 , 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 confus'd, Borne through the...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rougit, denso, or rn . ly palaee gate, With frontispieee of diamond and gold Embellish'd ; thiek with spark ereeps, or flies : At length an universal-hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voiees all eonfus'd, Bome...
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The National magazine and general review

James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...monosyllabic 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...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Chapman has the following characteristic lines on the apt fitness of the English monosyllables for...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...wakeful custody purloin'd 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 w»y, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ; At length a universal hubbub wild 3f stunning...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

Theology - 1834 - 692 pages
...will read all the older controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or fltwqi, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." Were we to adduce the most striking instance of the plastic nature of this kind of proof, we should...
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A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with ...

Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend, O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. The Arimaspians were supposed Asiatic wizards, who, by strength of magic, used to obtain a knowledge...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend O'er hog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal huhhuh wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 18

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...at once, and in broad herbe upsprung. ifUtm. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. Id. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight being the usual time of his going...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 18

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...and in broad herbs upsprung. Sfiltm. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rongh, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. id. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight being the usual time of his going...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...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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