...phonetically and semantically separates rapidly successive actions, all different: so eagerly the Fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet persues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes (947-950). This episode, so insistently...

...a desperate scramble, using whatever part of his body he can: O'er hog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet pursues his way, And svs-ims or sinks, or vvades, or creeps, or flies. (II. As a pseudo-hero Satan is alvs'ays deflated...

...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...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies: At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd 920 925 920. peal'd: struck...

...pages of Gone with the Wind or Forever Amber, where with head, hands, wings, or feet this poor fiend pursues his way, and swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies, that all his happiest memories of Shakespeare seem to come from a high school production of As You...

...pages of Gone with the Wind or Forever Amber, where with head, hands, wings, or fret this poor fiend pursues his way, and swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flier, that all his happiest memories of Shakespeare seem to come from a high school production of...

...1.948-50, where, "Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare," it is the voyaging Satan who "pursues his way, / And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes"). But the key line about evil, which seems short, is actually too long by one syllable, as Roy...

...Powers of Horror. 64. Giblert, Postmodern Wetlands, 143. In Milton's Paradise Lost, the “Fiend,” O'er bog or steep. through strait, rough. dense, or...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps. or flies. (Milton, Poetical Works i: 52, act a, lines ¿ 6¿. Ruskin contrasts flowing and stagnant water in...

...watch. Both express how an unhappy covetousness hinders the hoarders of sound sleep. [Hume] 948-49 Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,.../ With head, hands, wings or feet pursues his way. There is a memorable instance of the roughness of a road admirably described by a single verse in Homer,...

...to Milton's Satan ‘treading the crude consistence' between heaven and hell: So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or...swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.” The conceptual parallel is surely coincidental; much further, tortuous history would separate the early...

..."half on foot, / Half flying," employing "both Oar and Sail" (2.931, 933, 940-42): So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies[.] (2.947-50) He continues until he encounters "friendly natives"—Chaos, Night, Chance, Discord, et...