...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, 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...

...accomplish a task, not a little resembling a celebrated journey 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...

...swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " The Ftend, 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." Paradise Lost, Book II. line 947. With...

...for word, when, in the second book of his Paradise Lost, the latter has :— O'er bog or sleep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or wades, or creeps, or flies," &c. " So eagerly the fiend The German poet says:—...

...the public welfare, is but a thing of incongruous short-lived expedients, which O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. The National Education question is the most important of all the measures now under public discussion ;...

...eminence, and breaks through the chaos of confounding 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...

...Pasturing at unce, and in hioad herbs upsprung. Uillall. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, thiough strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. U. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight being the usual time of...

...foundered on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, 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...

...the effect to be gained by an artful and choice arrangement 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*,...

...foundered on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, 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...