...by a mixture of asyndeton and brachylogia: so eagerly the fiend 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 [...]. (PL 2: 947-50) The repetition imitates a physical effort...

...the "ill chance" of a natural cause. But his perverse will makes the natural utmost of his chances: With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes. (II, g^i) Satan's will, which is powerfully impelled and hardened...

...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: 950 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and...

...wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend0 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: 950 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and...

...Giblett, Postmodern Wetlands, i43. In Milton's Paradise Lost, 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. (Milton, Poetical Works i: 52, act 2, lines 947—50) 65. Ruskm...

...from his wakeful custody purloined 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. — MILTON, PARADISE LOST The Seraph from Its Sepulcher The inscribed...

...subject, he described pterodactyls by reference to Milton's fiend, who "O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sink, or wades, or creeps, or flies."3 Newly discovered anatomical knowledge was communicated through...

...wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold, so eagerly the Fiend 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. •^Paradise Lost 2.921-950 Milton has introduced into this narrative...

...purloined The guarded gold; so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, orrore With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. — MILTON, PARADISE LOST The Seraph from Its Sepulcher The inscribed...

...substance "infus'd" with "vital virtue" by the Son: 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...