 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 British poets, including translations - Page 197by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Henry Ustick Onderdonk - Religion - 1835 - 296 pages
...There he, '' O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands, wings or teet, pursues his way, 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " 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." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 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. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " 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." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pages
...intelligent mind, Milton's celebrated description of Satan's flight : " O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Eloquence as well as poetry has also contributed its share of misguided exertion, in which labor has... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " 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." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...planet." - ------- "The fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, denss or rare, With bead, h;md, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." ' With nocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...a little resembling a celebrated journey described by Milton : O'er hog, or steep, through strait, en to be dealing with. We have an example of this...accommodation, in Paul : Unto the Jews I became as a " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 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. At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1837 - 476 pages
...or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. • 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." Paradise Lost, Book If. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
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