...945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold; So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog,orsteep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 950 At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused Borne through the...

...intelligent mind, Milton's celebrated description of Satan's flight : " O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...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...

...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...wades, or creeps, or flies. At length a universal hubbud wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his...

...kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. • The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, Book If. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals...

...will 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...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...

...Aulularia, act iv. sc. 8. L p. 142. Plin. N. Hist lib. iv. c. 26. See Bulwert Artif. Changeling, p. 102. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,...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,...

...stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend [T. I With bead, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims,...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,...

...eminence, and breaks through the chaos of confounding technicalities into light — " O'er bog, o'er steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...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...

...walk—.he is always to make haste : no matter how ; he is " to make haste." " so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." porter to the brain—the go-between of author and the press—he may not lounge and tarry like a common...

...striking illustration of the effect to be gained by an artful and choice arrangement of words. " The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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...