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. Littell's Living Age - Page 351851Full view - About this book
| 1838 - 586 lehte
...stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend [T. I With bead, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
| 1839 - 474 lehte
...confounding technicalities into light — " O'er bog, o'er 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" — but, dating from that period, the study is like gazing from an eminence, or travelling down hill... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 lehte
...consistence, half on foot Half flying ; 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 most objectionable, and, at the same time, to the reader who has a vein of sarcasm in him, the... | |
| 1840 - 520 lehte
..." 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." porter to the brain—the go-between of author and the press—he may not lounge and tarry like a common... | |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 lehte
...remember the passage? " The Fiend " O'er hog, <"' steep, through straight, 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, after a weary journey, we came in sight of Loch Ard, and here we parted with our guide,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 lehte
...crude consistence, half on foot Half flying; 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 most objectionable, and, at the same time, to the reader who has a vein of sarcasm in him, the... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 lehte
...choice arrangement of words. " 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." I need hardly give any further specimens*, for every reader, though he may not previously have studied... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 lehte
...The fiend 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." I need hardly give any further specimens*, for every reader, though he may not previously have studied... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 lehte
...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." I need hardly give any further specimens*, for every reader, though he may not previously have studied... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - 1841 - 372 lehte
...chores of a turbulent planet. " The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his 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 shoals... | |
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