 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.  A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with ... - Page 4561829 - 476 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 pages
...king of beasts; which is said to imply that man, who lives upon the earth, cannot subsist without air. In latter times it was supposed that the Gryphon was...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,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1850 - 368 pages
...foot half flying:"— " As when a Griphon, through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold." Their 97. Pliny, speaking of the Scythians, or people conTribes, founded under that name by classic... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryfon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimpasian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold ; so eagerly the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1853 - 628 pages
...Arimaspians take it by force from the griffins.' Milton suggests lower means than those of force — ' As when a gryphon through the wilderness, With winged...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold.' We do not know on what authority our great poet relied here, but Herodotus... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...one-eyed people of Scythia. Milton borrows a simile from the Griffins, "Paradise Lost," Book II. : "As when a Gryphon through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian who by stealth Hath from his wakeful custody purloined His guarded... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...command of heaven's all-powerful King " they had been appointed to keep ; how he then pursued his way " O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies'' II. 949. through the dark " Illimitable ocean,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...were a one-eyed people of Scythia. Milton borrows a simile from the Griffins in Paradise Lost, Book 2: As when a Gryphon through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian who by stealth Hath from his wakeful custody purloined His guarded... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 pages
...resonances which prefigure the Dunciad not only in reverse, as we should expect, but also directly, as when: So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait,...rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or feet pursucs his way. And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies, ;n.947^.) which Pope imitated and... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...fares, 940 Treading the crude 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,303 who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold; so eagerly the... | |
 | Robin Headlam Wells - 1994 - 312 pages
...through the Wilderness With winged course ore Hill or moarie Dale, Persues the Arimaspian, who by stelth Had from his wakeful custody purloind The guarded Gold: so eagerly the Fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet persues his... | |
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