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. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by ... - Side 115av Edward Gibbon - 1854Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 sider
...c.47. 30 Compare Libanius, Orat. Parent. c. 53. p. 278,279, with Gregory Naziarrzen, Orat. iii. p. 68 Even the saint admires the speed and secrecy of this march. A modem divine might apply to the progress of Julian, the lines which were originally designed for another... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1812 - 580 sider
...moderne pourrait appliquer à Julien des vers faits pour un autre apostat. « • So eagerly the.fiend^ O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head y hands , wings, orfeet 3 pursues hîs wa/j ^4nd swims , or sinlcs , or wades, or creeps, orjlies.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 sider
...admires the speed and secrecy of ihis march. A modern divine might apply to the progress of Julian, tho lines which were originally designed for another apostate : — — So eagerly the fiend, O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, , With head, hands, wingsi, or feet, pursues... | |
| 1849 - 802 sider
...went at .him right in front — but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 460 sider
...47. * Compare Libanius, Oral. Parent. c. 53, p. 278, 279, with Gregory Nazianzen, Orat. iii. p. 68. Even the saint admires the speed and secrecy of this...which were originally designed for another apostate J So eagerly the fiend, O.er bog, or steep, through strait, rongh, dense, or rare With head, hands,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 sider
...Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 9*5 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or ran 1 , With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 sider
...time to prosecute that gracious method, but forced him to a quicker and rougher remedy. Clarendon. The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, Pursues his way. Milton. Before the cloudy van, In the rvugh edge of battle ere it joined, Satan advanced.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 sider
...(30) Compare Libanlus, Oral. Parent c. 53, p. STB, 379, with Gregory Nazianien, Oral. 111. p. вв. Even the saint admires the speed and secrecy of this...divine might apply to the progress of Julian, the line* which were originally designed for another apostate. So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep,... | |
| John Milton - 1833 - 438 sider
...dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or ran - , With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
| Henry Ustick Onderdonk - 1835 - 296 sider
...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, hands, wings or teet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Were we to adduce the most... | |
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