 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
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 sider
...very striking illustration of the effect to be gained by an artful and choice arrangement of words. " The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, \\ itli head, hands, wings or ftet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies."... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 sider
...945 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 rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 950 And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...dale, Pursues theArimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : metime let gorgeous Tragedy in scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelo hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ; At length... | |
 | 1841 - 446 sider
...Printer's Devil is never to walk — he is always to make haste; no matter how; he is "to make haste." " 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." And the... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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 rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. . At length... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 sider
...expenses; a person who is in narrow circumstances is 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 sider
...dale, Pursues theArimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : w hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or ffies ; At length... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 sider
...dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds the hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, : And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flios ; At length... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 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... | |
 | 1849 - 600 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, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." TALBOYS.... | |
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