 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 - Side 399av Edward Gibbon - 1901Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 sider
...dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 sider
...Arimaspiiins to to the romantic than the classical my- take it when they had the opportunitThe 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 : 950 At... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 sider
...Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth, •** Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded goldj so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,1 With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or -wades, or creeps,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - 1856 - 780 sider
...good dry land; nigh foundered, on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 sider
...dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined 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. MILTON... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 sider
...going to say," said Amy to Fred ; " you' re going to quote some lines out of ' Paradise Lost :' — ' 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.' " " You... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 sider
...room made his 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... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 sider
...dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful eustody purloined 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 ereeps, or flies. 950 931.... | |
 | Homerus - 1859 - 196 sider
...O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks, they go." Compare Milton's Paradise Lost, ii. 948: " so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare." iroffo-1 Sm-fvv-ro. Ovid, Fast. iii. 604 : " Seoretum nudo dum pede carpit iter." fyi£¡ Sé irai/Ta,... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 410 sider
...polysyllabic diction. We think this will challenge comparison with any Homeric verse analogous to it — 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. Again the... | |
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