 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.  Essays Critical and Narrative - Էջ 357William Forsyth - 1874 - 462 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 էջ
...consistence, half on foot, Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 էջ
...consistence, half on foot, 941 Half fly'ng ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a Griffon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold. So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 էջ
...fable in a fine simile, describing Satan's laborious flight through the chaos. As when a Gryphon thro' the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold.- — - Par. Lost. b.ii. 943, * Lib. viii,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 էջ
...consistence, half on foot, Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd • The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 էջ
...these authorities, and that of Herodotus, our Milton draws his simile — As when a Gryphon, through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arhnaspian, who, by stealth. Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold. 0 was it warwolf... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 էջ
...consistence, half on foot, Half fly'ing ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 94i Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 էջ
...consistence, half on foot, Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin' d The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 էջ
...consistence, half on foot, Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness "With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth IMS Had from his wakeful custody purloin 'd The guarded gold: so eagevlyAhe fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | 1849 - 802 էջ
...(Tkalia, 1 1 6, and Melpomene, 13, 27) to Milton (Paradite Loit, book T.) — " As when a Gryphon, through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian," &c. * Of the many mysterious chapters of the human mind, surely one of the most obscure and puzzling... | |
 | 1819 - 614 էջ
...hydras, and chimeras dire," as remind us of that passage in Milton, commencing, As when a gryphon through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspiun, who by stealth Has from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. It is the false... | |
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