 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.  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Side 43af John Milton - 1826 - 294 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Homer - 1851 - 488 sider
...— " They measured hill and dale, Right onward now, and now circuitous." Cf. Milton, PL ii. 948 :— O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." s So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus umbras, capitis exuvias cape, laccraque frontis accipe absdssam... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - 418 sider
...or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet." " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings. or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Now, when the details of such facts are brought before us, it is very natural to feel that it is the... | |
 | 1851 - 606 sider
...surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground ; thence many a league, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Nor arc there wanting, to promote our sympathy, the qualities of acute perception, docility, mimicry,... | |
 | 1851 - 658 sider
...; thence many a league, O'er bog, or steep, throug' rare, ugh straight, rough, dense, or VOL. XXX. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Nor are there wanting, to promote our sympathy, the qualities of acute perception, docility, mimicry,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1915 - 636 sider
...up and down in almost infinite chaos that the perplexed critic 302 GREEK POETRY IN ENGLISH VERSE ' With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies,' yet, perhaps, such general remarks as have been made may afford some guiding clue ; while happily,... | |
 | 1836 - 610 sider
...for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sider
...[2.932-38] So on he slogs: "behoves him now both Oare and Saile," says the poet sarcastically: Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,...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 sider
...elicits unclean locomotion. Satan "tread[sj" the "crude consistence, half on foot, / Half flying": So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait,...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... | |
 | M. J. S. Rudwick - 1992 - 302 sider
...for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. "The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri... | |
 | Martin J. S. Rudwick - 1995 - 298 sider
...reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. "The Fiend, O'er lx>g, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...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... | |
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