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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 201849Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 Seiten
...expenses; a person who is in narrow circumstances is represented as having bot a small extent of properly. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait,...With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. (Milton'* PL.) A faithless heart, how despicably small, Too tirait aught great or generous to receive.... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - 1841 - 370 Seiten
...or crawled on tho 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." Paradise Lost, Book 2. line 947. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 Seiten
...945 Pursues 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,...With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 950 And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...[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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 Seiten
...resonances which 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... | |
| Robin Headlam Wells - 1994 - 312 Seiten
...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... | |
| Paul L. Mariani - 1994 - 558 Seiten
...pages of Gone with the Wind or Forever Amber, where with head, hands, wings, or feet, this poor fiend pursues his way, and swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies; that all his happiest memories of Shakespeare seem to come from a high school production of As You... | |
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