 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.  Histoire de l'éloquence: avec des jugements critiques sur les plus célèbres ... - Page 70by Charles Augustin Henry (l'abbé.) - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1835 - 978 pages
...O'cr bog, or steep, Uirough strail, rongh, dense, or rare, \V ith bead, hands, wings, or fert, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 3 Dans cet intervalle, la Notifia place deux ou trois flottes, la Lauriacensis à Lauriacum ou Lorsch,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Episcopacy - 1835 - 176 pages
...O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With bead, hands, wings or feet, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...bog, o'er steep, through streight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Wide as a windmill all his figure spread, With arms expanded Bernard rows his state,67 And left-legg'd... | |
 | 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
...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." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pages
...O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 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... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...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." 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
...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. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, U iih head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 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... | |
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