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. 950 Paradise Lost - עמוד 73מאת John Milton - 1896 - 408 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| 1836 - 534 דפים
...the creature amidst the confusion of a yet turbulent planet, " O'er bog, or steep, through strait, or dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." We have again to regret that we have no room to pursue the osteological detail, which is deeply interesting.... | |
| William Buckland - 1837 - 476 דפים
...for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. ' The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Paradise Lost, Book II. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
| 1837 - 1068 דפים
...will accomplish a task, not a little resembling a celebrated journey described by Milton : O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us... | |
| Daniel Boileau - 1837 - 268 דפים
...for word, 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... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 דפים
...o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspiau, 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 i> • i. pursues his wa\. And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
| 1834 - 692 דפים
...is doomed *vho will read all the older controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or fltwqi, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." Were we to adduce the most striking instance of the plastic nature of this kind of proof, we should... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1838 - 406 דפים
...which I find Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land— And which I must follow, like the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare— And swim, or sink, or wade, or creep, or fly. TESTIMONY OP THE EARLIER WRITERS ON NEW ENGLAND. THE... | |
| 1839 - 474 דפים
...eminence, and breaks through the chaos of confounding technicalities into light— " O'er bog, o'er steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...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; and... | |
| 1839 - 836 דפים
...carrying them through for the public welfare, is but a thing of incongruous short-lived expedients, which O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues its way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. The National Education question is the... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 דפים
...petition, I'll insert it as presented. Ctaremlun. Uillall. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, thiough strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. U. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight... | |
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