 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
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave. Book ii. Line 910. Paradise Lost continued.] O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, winga, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Book ii. Line... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...clung to, the end of which, nevertheless, itself clearly discerned ; like one before him, " eagerly, o'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, with head, hands, wings, or feet, pursuing his way," towards that imagined paradise, but real cemetery of those whose lives have been... | |
 | William George Fretton - 1879 - 398 pages
...conceivable that, like other quasi-metaphysicians, he occasionally floundered:—• " O'er bog, or eteep. 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." Probably his leaning, if he ever had... | |
 | Charles Daniel Dance - 1881 - 378 pages
...and seem'ing to threaten while they mock us? Were these what Milton describes : — " The fiends, who O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursue their way, And swim, or sink, or wade, or creep, or fly " ? banks far below, and were now in... | |
 | John Milton - 1884 - 304 pages
...stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend—- O'er hog 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. 950 At length a universal... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 774 pages
...besmutched with their cartridges in battle — was scampering along like the devil in Milton, flying — ' O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hand*, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies'— until... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...swimming. Thus, like Milton's, fiend, qualified for all services and all elements, the pterodactyle was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or brawled on the shores of a turbulent planet The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1892 - 490 pages
...elbows her way through the underwood of words to the clear blue beyond : — " O'er bog or steep, though strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues her way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." But let her don her cumbersome working-day... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1892 - 488 pages
...elbows her way through the underwood of words to the clear blue beyond : — " O'er bog or steep, though strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues her way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." But let her don her cumbersome working-day... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - 1897 - 376 pages
...are beautifully illustrated in the following from Milton: — " So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog and steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues the way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." 3. The figure of syntax formed by the... | |
| |
