...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,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." The Arimaspians were Asiatic wizards, who, by magic, used to obtain a knowledge of the places where...

...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,...way; And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics. At length an universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through...

...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : At length a universal hubbub wild 051 Of stunnmg sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the...thither he plies, Undaunted to meet there whatever Pow'r 955 Or Spirit of the nethermost abyss Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask Which way the...

...have usually applied to it Milton's description :— ' The fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Of the enaliosauria, or sea-lizards, there are two principal types, both amply represented in the museum—the...

...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,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." s So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus umbras, capitis exuvias cape, laccraque frontis accipe absdssam...

...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,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." 3 So in Senec. Hippol. 1176, " Placemus umbras, capitis exuvias cape, lacereqne frontis accipe abscissam...

...surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground ; thence many a league, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Nor arc there wanting, to promote our sympathy, the qualities of acute perception, docility, mimicry,...

...or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet." " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings. or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Now, when the details of such facts are brought before us, it is very natural to feel that it is the...

...With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies: At length, a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds,...he plies, Undaunted, to meet there whatever power Or spirit of the nethermost abyss Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask Which way the nearest...

...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,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." The chief mean of attaining general harmony in verse is a free and happy distribution of the vowel-sounds....