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. The Linguist: A Complete Course of Instructions in the German Language ... - หน้า 237โดย Daniel Boileau - 1837 - 255 หน้ามุมมองทั้งเล่ม - เกี่ยวกับหนังสือเล่มนี้
| 1836 - 418 หน้า
...intelligent mind, Milton's celebrated description of Satan's flight : " O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Eloquence as well as poetry has also contributed its share of... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 หน้า
...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend 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. At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices... | |
| 1837 - 1068 หน้า
...task, not a little resembling a celebrated journey described by Milton : O'er hog, or steep, through hey happen to be dealing with. We have an example of this innocent and salutary accommodation, sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 หน้า
...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend 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. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices... | |
| William Buckland - 1837 - 646 หน้า
...the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " The Ftend, 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, Book II. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 518 หน้า
...Aulularia, act iv. sc. 8. L p. 142. Plin. N. Hist lib. iv. c. 26. See Bulwert Artif. Changeling, p. 102. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices... | |
| 1839 - 474 หน้า
...breaks through the chaos of confounding technicalities into light — " O'er bog, 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" — but, dating from that period, the study is like gazing from... | |
| 1839 - 836 หน้า
...public welfare, is but a thing of incongruous short-lived expedients, which O'er bog, or steep, 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 National Education question is the... | |
| 1840 - 520 หน้า
...haste : no matter how ; he is " to make haste." " so eagerly the fiend 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." porter to the brain—the go-between of author and the press—he... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 หน้า
...to be gained by an artful and choice arrangement of words. " The fiend 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." I need hardly give any further specimens*, for every reader,... | |
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