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. Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts - Էջ 31Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Edward Gibbon - 1839 - 980 էջ
...théologien moderne pourrait appliquer à Julien des vers faits pour un autre apostat. So eagerly Uie fiend , O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, bands, wings, or feet, pursues bis way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 3 Dans... | |
| 1840 - 520 էջ
...Printer's Devil is never to 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,...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... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 էջ
...very 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,...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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 էջ
...of Chaos ; " Nigh foundered on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot Half flying ; O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." The most objectionable, and, at the same time, to the reader who has a vein of sarcasm in him, the... | |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 էջ
...scrambled through chaos. You remember the passage? " The Fiend " O'er hog, <"' steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, " With head, hands, wings,...sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " At length, after a weary journey, we came in sight of Loch Ard, and here we parted with our guide, of whose services... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 էջ
...very 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, or rare, With head, hands, wings or leet pursues his way. And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 էջ
...very 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, or rare, With head, hands, wings or teet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 էջ
...very 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, or rare, \\ itli head, hands, wings or ftet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies."... | |
| 1840 - 818 էջ
...to raake haste: no matter how ; he is ' to make haste.' ' so eigerly tke 6end Cr>r bor, o'er uteep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet, purities his way; Aid vwinu, or kinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Vad die conscientious, pains-taking... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 էջ
...dale, Pursues theArimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : metime let gorgeous Tragedy in scepter'd pall come...Thebes' or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow dark,... | |
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