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. The Iliad - Seite 421von Homer - 1851 - 466 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Henry - 1853 - 626 Seiten
...quicksilver into its pores and to let water pass through it." NEWTON. — "So eagerly the fiend O'er bog1 or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way." HlLTOK. CLAUSTRA; — not the straits or actual passage , but (literally) the closers, shutters or... | |
| Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1854 - 384 Seiten
...his future terrestrial dominion. " Nigh founder'd, on he fares, O'er bog, or steep, through straits, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way." At length we escaped from this confused mass of rocks (which, after all, requires nothing more than... | |
| William Garland Barrett - 1855 - 340 Seiten
...the animal whose extinct and fossil remains have been so recently disinterred. " The fiend O'er tog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And sinks or swims, or wades or walks, or creeps or flies." We conclude this chapter by giving drawings... | |
| 1855 - 488 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, hands, wings, or feet, pursues its way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' '' * The muscular strength of Insects... | |
| James Hamilton - 1855 - 986 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, hands, wings, or feet, pursues its way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or nies.' '* * The muscular strength of Insects... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 Seiten
...bed milked his ewes and camels mended his stockings and scoured his sword — So eagerty the Fiend o'er bog or steep through strait rough dense or rare with head hands wings or feet p ursues his way Suns moons and stars and clouds his sisters were Rocks mountains meteors seas and... | |
| Henry Ustick Onderdonk - 1860 - 300 Seiten
...unsatisfactory toil he is doomed who will read all the older controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hanas, u in.::- or t'eet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or Wddes, or creeps, or flics." Were... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 Seiten
...bed milked his ewes and camels mended his stockings and scoured his Bword — So eagerly the Fiend o'er bog or steep through strait rough dense or rare with head hands wings or feet pursues his way Suns moons and stars and clouds his sisters were Rocks mountains meteors seas and winds and storms... | |
| 1861 - 820 Seiten
...progress of the arch-enemy in Milton— So eagerly the fiend, Through rough or smooth, land, sea, bog, dense or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. Of his powers of dealing with familiar topics we could not give examples without taking up a disproportionate... | |
| 1861 - 898 Seiten
...progress of the arch-enemy in Milton — So eagerly the fiend, Through rough or smooth, land, sea, bog, dense or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. Of his powers of dealing with familiar topics we could not give examples without taking up a disproportionate... | |
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