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 Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Trang 234được biên tập bởi - 1809Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
| 1839 - 474 trang
...breaks through the chaos of confounding technicalities into light — " O'er bog, o'er steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies" — but, dating from that period, the study is like gazing from an eminence, or travelling down... | |
| 1839 - 836 trang
...public welfare, is but a thing of incongruous short-lived expedients, which O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues its way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. The National Education question is the... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 trang
...on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot Half flying; O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,...way, 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,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 trang
...on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot Half flying ; O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,...way, 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,... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 trang
...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...his way, 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... | |
| 1840 - 520 trang
...haste : no matter how ; he is " to make haste." " so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings...way ; 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... | |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 trang
...scrambled through chaos. You remember the passage? " The Fiend " O'er hog, <"' steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, " With head, hands, wings,...way, " And swims, or 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... | |
| 1841 - 446 trang
...make haste; no matter how; he is "to make haste." " so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings...way; And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." And the conscientious, pains-taking Printer's Devil, on an errand for copy, is expected to... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 trang
...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,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. . At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 trang
...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through e sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; flies ; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through... | |
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