 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.  Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Reptilia and Pisces ... - Page 35de Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum - 1854 - 184 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 646 pages
...the island of Bonin. (See Zool. Journ. No. l(j, p. 458.) " Thus, like Milton's fiend, all qualified for all services and all elements, the creature was...crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " The Ftend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet,... | |
 | 1837 - 756 pages
...possessed by the vampire bat of Bonin. ' Thus, like Milton s fiend, qualified for all services and elements, the creature was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed on the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. With flocks of such like creatures flying... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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, U iih head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 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, 936 rebuff] Compare Statii Theb. vii. 35. ' Atque ilium Arctote labentem cardine porte Tempestas mterna... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1838 - 406 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1839 - 836 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1839 - 980 pages
...théologien moderne pourrait appliquer à Julien des vers faits pour un autre apostat. So eagerly Uie fiend , O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, bands, wings, or feet, pursues bis way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 3 Dans... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...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, With head, hands, wings or leet pursues his way. And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...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."... | |
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