 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
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 lehte
...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." The Arimaspians were Asiatic wizards, who, by magic, used to obtain a knowledge of the places where... | |
 | John Wilson - 1850 - 378 lehte
...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." the gloom — sat down — as composedly as you would yourself, sir — on a knoll, in another region... | |
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 lehte
...it Milton's description :— ' 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.' Of the enaliosauria, or sea-lizards, there are two principal types, both amply represented in the museum—the... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 lehte
...Oare and Saile," says the poet sarcastically: Ore 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 flyes . . . [2.948-50] At length he blunders into "a universal hubbub wilde" which represents the storm-center... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 lehte
...foot, / Half flying": 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 ... (II. 947-50) So too, when Satan appears on the outer shell of the created universe, he discovers... | |
 | Martin J. S. Rudwick - 1995 - 298 lehte
...shores of a turbulent planet. "The Fiend, O'er lx>g, 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." With flocks of such-Iike creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 lehte
...Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet pursucs his way. And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies, ;n.947^.) which Pope imitated and cited at Dunciad n.631!., describing Lintot who like 'a dab-chick... | |
 | Paul L. Mariani - 1994 - 558 lehte
...pages of Gone with the Wind or Forever Amber, where with head, hands, wings, or feet, this poor fiend pursues his way, and swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies; that all his happiest memories of Shakespeare seem to come from a high school production of As You... | |
 | Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 304 lehte
...purloind The guarded Gold: So eagerly the fiend Ore 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 flyes. (2.943-50) At one level, this description foreshadows Satan's later entropic descent into the... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 lehte
...The guarded gold: so eagerly 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: (PL, n.943-5o) Alone among critics in giving any thought to the reality of the griffin, Svendsen argues... | |
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