 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.  Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire Romain: (1835. XVII, 948 p.) - Page 502by Edward Gibbon - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1851 - 486 pages
...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." 3 So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus umbras, capitis exuvias cape, lacereqne frontis accipe abscissam... | |
 | Homer - 1851 - 488 pages
...948 :— 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." s So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus umbras, capitis exuvias cape, laccraque frontis accipe absdssam... | |
 | 1851 - 658 pages
...or steep, throug' rare, ugh straight, rough, dense, or VOL. XXX. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Nor are there wanting, to promote our sympathy, the qualities of acute perception, docility, mimicry,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - 418 pages
...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." Now, when the details of such facts are brought before us, it is very natural to feel that it is the... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...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." " O now, for ever, XV. Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop, and... | |
 | 534 pages
...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, led by a confusion of discordant sounds, he arrived at the dominions of Chaos, where Night... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...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 : iso At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
..."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 chief mean of attaining general harmony in verse is a free and happy distribution of the vowel-sounds.... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...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... | |
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