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| 1840 - 520 Seiten
..." 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." porter to the brain—the go-between of author and the press—he may not lounge and tarry like a common... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 Seiten
...on foot Half flying ; 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 most objectionable, and, at the same time, to the reader who has a vein of sarcasm in him, the... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 Seiten
...fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, \\ itli head, hands, wings or ftet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further specimens*, for every reader, though he may not previously have studied... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 Seiten
...The fiend 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." I need hardly give any further specimens*, for every reader, though he may not previously have studied... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...: so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, , Or the tale of Troy divine ; ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - 1841 - 372 Seiten
...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." Paradise Lost, Book 2. line 947. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 Seiten
...: 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. . At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
| 1841 - 446 Seiten
..." 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." And the conscientious, pains-taking Printer's Devil, on an errand for copy, is expected to emulate... | |
| Robert Emory - 1841 - 400 Seiten
...O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, the fiend pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Too striking a specimen of the zeal and perseverance with which many of the emissaries of Satan have... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...wakeful custody, purloin'd 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 hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through the... | |
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