 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.  The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by ... - Pagina 115door Edward Gibbon - 1854Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 pagina’s
...c.47. 30 Compare Libanius, Orat. Parent. c. 53. p. 278,279, with Gregory Naziarrzen, Orat. iii. p. 68 Even the saint admires the speed and secrecy of this march. A modem divine might apply to the progress of Julian, the lines which were originally designed for another... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1812 - 580 pagina’s
...moderne pourrait appliquer à Julien des vers faits pour un autre apostat. « • So eagerly the.fiend^ O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head y hands , wings, orfeet 3 pursues hîs wa/j ^4nd swims , or sinlcs , or wades, or creeps, orjlies.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pagina’s
...admires the speed and secrecy of ihis march. A modern divine might apply to the progress of Julian, tho lines which were originally designed for another apostate : — — So eagerly the fiend, O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, , With head, hands, wingsi, or feet, pursues... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pagina’s
...went at .him right in front — but such another flounder ! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. " So eagerly THE FIEND O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 01 rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 460 pagina’s
...47. * Compare Libanius, Oral. Parent. c. 53, p. 278, 279, with Gregory Nazianzen, Orat. iii. p. 68. Even the saint admires the speed and secrecy of this...which were originally designed for another apostate J So eagerly the fiend, O.er bog, or steep, through strait, rongh, dense, or rare With head, hands,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pagina’s
...Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 9*5 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or ran 1 , With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pagina’s
...time to prosecute that gracious method, but forced him to a quicker and rougher remedy. Clarendon. The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, Pursues his way. Milton. Before the cloudy van, In the rvugh edge of battle ere it joined, Satan advanced.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 pagina’s
...(30) Compare Libanlus, Oral. Parent c. 53, p. STB, 379, with Gregory Nazianien, Oral. 111. p. вв. Even the saint admires the speed and secrecy of this...divine might apply to the progress of Julian, the line* which were originally designed for another apostate. So eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pagina’s
...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, through strait, rough, dense, or ran - , With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,... | |
 | Henry Ustick Onderdonk - 1835 - 296 pagina’s
...unsatisfactory toil he is doomed who will read all the older controversies on Episcopacy. There he, '' 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." Were we to adduce the most... | |
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