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 Quarterly review - Seite 1211848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1840 - 818 Seiten
...to raake haste: no matter how ; he is ' to make haste.' ' so eigerly tke 6end Cr>r bor, o'er uteep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet, purities his way; Aid vwinu, or kinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Vad die conscientious, pains-taking... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy d his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of... | |
| 1841 - 446 Seiten
...always to make haste; no matter how; he is "to make haste." " 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... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 Seiten
...Had 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, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. . At length a universal hubbub wild Of... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 Seiten
...Had 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, or feet, pursues his way, 950 And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbub wild... | |
| 1841 - 524 Seiten
...swarmed in the seas or crawled on the shores of a turDul«nt planet r " The Fiend O'er boy , or iteep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. And iwimi, or sinks, or wades, or creel*, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures Hying... | |
| H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 Seiten
...circumstances is represented as having bot a small extent of properly. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. (Milton'* PL.) A faithless heart, how despicably small, Too tirait aught great or generous... | |
| Robert Emory - 1841 - 400 Seiten
...race. That was, indeed, a hellish mission. Yet how zealously was it executed ! ' 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... | |
| Richard Owen - 1843 - 408 Seiten
...burrowing, and of flight; thus, like Milton's fiend, it is qualified for different elements, and " Through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With such diversified powers of attaining food, there are, in fact, associated, in Insects, equally,... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...Pursues the Arimaspian, who, by stealth, Had, from his 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... | |
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