...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." The Arimaspians were Asiatic wizards,...

...burrowing, and of flight ; thus, like Milton's fiend, it is qualified for different elements, and ' Through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' there are, in fact, associated, in Insects, equally, if not more varied, structures for imbibing, seizing,...

...onward now, and now circuitous." Cf. Milton, PL ii. 948 :— " 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." 3 So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus...

...hill and dale, Right onward now, and now circuitous." Cf. Milton, PL ii. 948 :— 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." s So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus...

...foot and half-flying. Appalled by no change of circumstances, 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, led by a confusion of discordant...

...Had from his wakeful custody purloined 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 : iso At length a universal hubbub wild...

...the following passage, as expressive of slow and toilsome travel: — . "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 chief mean of attaining general harmony...

...did Thomson, Beattie, Byron and Shelley adopt it ? XIV. " 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." " O now, for ever, XV. Farewell the tranquil...

...which it will not wear, to gain its sordid ends. Ambition, like Milton's fiend, "O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." We need not wonder, then, if in those days hypocrisy widely prevailed, and that by it many were deceived...

...subtle smoke dissolv'd in air." Dryden. ' So Milton: — " So eagerly the fiend 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." I'ar. Lost, ii. 948. VOL. II. R But when...