...flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. "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." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolus,...

...turpe relinqui est. — Horat. de Arte. » So eagerty the fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' streight, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob...

...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...

...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." The Arimaspians were Asiatic wizards, who, by magic, used to...

...the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " 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." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals...

...slogs: "behoves him now both Oare and Saile," says the poet sarcastically: Ore 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 flyes . . . [2.948-50] At length he blunders into "a universal hubbub...

...the "crude consistence, half on foot, / Half flying": 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 ... (II. 947-50) So too, when Satan appears on the outer shell...

...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 head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-Iike creatures flying in the air, and shoals...

...of emphasis, a feeling of urgency and condensation: v - i - - 1 ' ' r ' O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way - i - - i - ' r - r Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death • r ' r il in The...

...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: (PL, n.943-5o) Alone among critics in giving any thought to the...