...prefigure the Dunciad not only in reverse, as we should expect, but also directly, as when: So eagerly the 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...

...Arimaspian, who by stelth Had from his wakeful custody purloind The guarded Gold: so eagerly the Fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet persues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes . . .21 A rather more subtle form...

...phonetically and semantically separates rapidly successive actions, all different: so eagerly the Fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet persues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes (947-950). This episode, so insistently...

...paw , wherewith, the animal was enabled to creep, or climb, or suspend itself from trees: — thus, like Milton's fiend, allqualified for all services...reptiles that swarmed in the seas or crawled on the chores of a turbulent planet.' 'The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare,...

...Thus," 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 swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a tur bulent planet : — "The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...

...like the sea-birds of the present era. Thus, as Dr. Buckland says, "like Milton's fiend, qualified for all services and all elements, the creature was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that 202 203 swarmed in the seas, or ciawled on the shores of a turbulent planet — ' The fiend O'er bog...

...looking over their delineations, we cauuot but remember the lines of Milton, in his Paradise Lost : — ' The fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, winge, or feet, pursues his way ; And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Paradise Lost,...

...depths darker than Erebus, and the bewildered and benighted reader is remorselessly made to follow, "O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare. With head, llanda, wings, or feet, pur. sues his way. And swiii», or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At...

...to swim as ordinary reptiles; thus, as Adams says, "Like Milton's fiend, qualified for all service and all elements, the creature was a fit companion for the kindred 18 The Rivulet. reptiles that swarmed in the seas or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet' "...