 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
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...walking, swimming and flying reptile. " Thus, like Milton's fiend," says Buckland, " all qualified for all services and all elements, the creature was...companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the sea, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. 'The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1845 - 430 pages
...Buckland, " like Milton's fiend, all qualified for all services, and all elements, the pterodactyle was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that...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,... | |
 | 1850 - 528 pages
...y mae hyn wedi ei golli yn y cyfieithiad. Drachefn : — MILTON : llyfr ii. llin. 947. " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, haude, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." PUGHE :... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...stealth Had, from his wakeful custody, purloin'd 950 The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend, [rare, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, orfeet, pursues his way ; And swims, or sinks, or wados, or creeps, or flies. At length an universal... | |
 | 1848 - 572 pages
...they are qualified for all the habitable elements; and such a creature, like Milton's fiend, — " 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 relations which subsist between the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...says he, " like Milton's fiend, all-qualified for all services, and all elements, the Pterodactyle was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that...rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or (vet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Cuvier, in his great work,... | |
 | Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...claw of each fore-foot sustaining a great wing; and adapted for flying, swimming, and walking, it " was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that...seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet." But though these creatures were all embedded, and the surface of the earth was reformed, ere man appeared,... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...task of the student in these discnssions is that of Milton's fiend floundering through chaos. He " O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands, wingF, or feet, pursues his way ; And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." It does one's... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - 418 pages
...Dr. Buckland, "like Milton's fiend, all qualified for nil services, and all elements, pterodactyle was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that...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,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 446 pages
...burrowing, and of flight ; thus, like Milton's fiend, it is qualified for different elements, and ' 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.' there are, in fact, associated, in Insects,... | |
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