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" 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. "
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1836 - 418 pages
...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 misguided exertion, in which labor has...
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The Penny Mechanic and Chemist: A Magazine of the Arts and Sciences, Volume 6

1841 - 488 pages
...planet." - ------- "The fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, denss or rare, With bead, h;md, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." ' With nocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri...
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Le paradis perdu, Volume 1

John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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 all confused, Borne through the hollow...
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Paradis perdu: de Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...; 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 all confused, Borne through the hollow...
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Oeuvres complètes de m. le vicomte de Chateaubriand: Le Paradis Perdu de Milton

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, U iih 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 all confused, Borne through the hollow...
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Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer

Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...described by Milton : O'er hog, 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. " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us...
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The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence

Law - 1839 - 474 pages
...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 an eminence, or travelling down hill...
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A descriptive tour in Scotland; by T.H.C.

Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...passage? " The Fiend " O'er hog, <"' 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. " At length, after a weary journey, we came in sight of Loch Ard, and here we parted with our guide,...
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Literary Leaves, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...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, though he may not previously have studied...
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The North American Review, Volume 50

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 584 pages
...half on foot Half flying; 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 most objectionable, and, at the same time, to the reader who has a vein of sarcasm in him, the...
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