 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 Genius of Christianity, Or, The Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion - Page 331by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - 1856 - 763 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...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, rough,...universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear With loudest vehemence : thither he plies,... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...Pursues theArimaspian, who byitcalth Had from bis 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 purs«cs fail way, [1i*« : And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creepy, or At length a universal hubbub... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...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, rough, dense, or rare, [way, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues hi* And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 464 pages
...Julian, the lines which were originally designed for another apostate.— — — — — So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flic>. of light brigantines,h as it lay at anchor ; secured CHAP. a supply of coarse provisions sufficient... | |
 | 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 - 1811 - 568 pages
...easy transit across ' the palpable obscure' of ancient legends, and must once more ' O'er bog, o'er steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursue our way.' In the few strictures which we have ventured to offer on the Newtonian, as contrasted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1812 - 580 pages
...moderne pourrait appliquer à Julien des vers faits pour un autre apostat. « • So eagerly the.fiend^ O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head y hands , wings, orfeet 3 pursues hîs wa/j ^4nd swims , or sinlcs , or wades, or creeps, orjlies.... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...guarded gold: so eagevlyAhe fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, \Vith 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 voices all eonfus'd, Borne through the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...eagerly the fiend, O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, , With head, hands, wingsi, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. signed to embark his troops on the Danube. By a CHAP. well-concerted stratagem, he seized a fleet of... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pages
...first knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolns, or Eurus, or Notus, or Favonius —... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 pages
...from his wakeful custody pnrloin'd The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend, • O'er bog or stoep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, Aud swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." p. LB ,,, v. 943. The Arimaspians were supposed... | |
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