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 Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 234edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...eagerly the fiend, O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, , With head, hands, wingsi, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. signed to embark his troops on the Danube. By a CHAP. well-concerted stratagem, he seized a... | |
| 1849 - 802 pages
...first knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolns, or Eurus, or Notus, or Favonius... | |
| Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 pages
...his wakeful custody pnrloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend, • O'er bog or stoep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, Aud swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." p. LB ,,, v. 943. The Arimaspians were supposed... | |
| John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloinM The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, thro' strait, rough,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : 950 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confue'd, Borne through... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O er bog, or steep, through and on their heads Main promontories flung, which...shadowing, and oppress'd whole legions arm'd ; [bruis'd flies , At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 460 pages
...originally designed for another apostate J So eagerly the fiend, O.er bog, or steep, through strait, rongh, dense, or rare With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, Ami swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. of light brigantines,k as it lay at anchor ; secured... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...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 head, hands, wings,...way, 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... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, thro' strait, rough,...With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, A ml swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild 951 Of stunuing... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 294 pages
...on, with shoulders, hands, and head. ' So eagerly the f1end O'er bog, o'er steep, through streight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' MILTON, Book 11. KM With arms expanded Bernard rows his slate, And left-legg'd Jacob seems... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...on, with shoulders, hands, and head. ' So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, through streight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' MILTON, Book 11. KM With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob seems... | |
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