 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 Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 234edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Edward Hitchcock - Fossils - 1841 - 372 pages
...or crawled on the chores of a turbulent planet. " The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...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... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - Geology - 1841 - 370 pages
...or crawled on tho shores of a turbulent planet. " The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...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... | |
 | 1841 - 524 pages
...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 in the air,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...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 Of stunning... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...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 to receive.... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - Azores - 1841 - 506 pages
...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 A DISASTER. Ill rocks, (which, after all, requires... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through t ffies ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through , and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony iuelf, flios ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...discovery, in which the traveller, like Satan in Chaos : « O'er bog, o'er steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies," while peering curiously into the earth's mysteries, chanced to have his eyes gladdened by the... | |
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