 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 Yale Literary Magazine - Sida 2641836Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 sidor
...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...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 hollow... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 sidor
...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...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 sidor
...guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, U iih head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow... | |
 | Daniel Boileau - 1837 - 268 sidor
...when, in the second book of his Paradise Lost, the latter has :— O'er bog or sleep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or wades, or creeps, or flies," &c. " So eagerly the fiend The German poet says:— " Wie doch ein Sterblicher... | |
 | Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association - 1837 - 986 sidor
...a lamb, and in ferocity the tiger a kitten, roamed on the shore in frightful multitudes. . " Fiends O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet, pursue their way, And swim, or sink, or wade, or creep, or fly," sole occupants, and fitted to endure... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 sidor
...Aulularia, act iv. sc. 8. L p. 142. Plin. N. Hist lib. iv. c. 26. See Bulwert Artif. Changeling, p. 102. 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 hollow... | |
 | 1838 - 586 sidor
...stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend [T. I With bead, 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... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 sidor
...to his journey's end ; and rather measuring the given distance than choosing the right course — " through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursued his way." MILTOW. Similar strictures might be passed upon all the translations in our language,... | |
 | 1839 - 474 sidor
...through the chaos of confounding technicalities into light — " O'er bog, o'er steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies" — but, dating from that period, the study is like gazing from an eminence, or travelling down hill... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 sidor
...Milton's Satan when he scrambled through chaos. You remember the passage? " The Fiend " O'er hog, <"' steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, "...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " At length, after a weary journey, we came in sight of Loch Ard, and here we parted with our guide,... | |
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