..." So eagerly the fiend 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." 3 So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus umbras, capitis exuvias cape, lacereqne frontis accipe abscissam...

...planet." " The fiend, 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." Now, when the details of such facts are brought before us, it is very natural to feel that it is the...

...the poet sarcastically: Ore 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 flyes . . . [2.948-50] At length he blunders into "a universal hubbub wilde" which represents the storm-center...

...flying": So eagerly the fiend 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 ... (II. 947-50) So too, when Satan appears on the outer shell of the created universe, he discovers...

...turbulent planet. "The Fiend, 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...

...Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet pursucs his way. And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies, ;n.947^.) which Pope imitated and cited at Dunciad n.631!., describing Lintot who like 'a dab-chick...

...pages of Gone with the Wind or Forever Amber, where with head, hands, wings, or feet, this poor fiend pursues his way, and swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies; that all his happiest memories of Shakespeare seem to come from a high school production of As You...

...so eagerly the fiend 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: (PL, n.943-5o) Alone among critics in giving any thought to the reality of the griffin, Svendsen argues...

...so eagerly the fiend 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 [...]. (PL 2: 947-50) The repetition imitates a physical effort that is exhausting and seemingly endless,...

...of a natural cause. But his perverse will makes the natural utmost of his chances: With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes. (II, g^i) Satan's will, which is powerfully impelled and hardened by God's providence, is characterized...