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. Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 - Página 160por Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 726 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1839 - 474 páginas
...eminence, and breaks through the chaos of confounding technicalities into light — " O'er bog, o'er steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...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 hill... | |
| 1839 - 836 páginas
...carrying them through for the 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... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 páginas
...Pasturing at unce, and in hioad herbs upsprung. Uillall. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, thiough strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. U. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight being the usual time of his going... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 páginas
...the realms of Chaos ; " Nigh foundered on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot Half flying ; O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...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, the... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 páginas
...striking illustration of the effect to be gained by an artful and choice arrangement of words. " The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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 studied... | |
| 1840 - 520 páginas
...walk—.he is always to make haste : no matter how ; he is " to make haste." " so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,...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 like a common... | |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 páginas
...scrambled through chaos. You remember the passage? " The Fiend " O'er hog, <"' steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, " With head, hands, wings,...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 guide,... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 páginas
...striking illustration of the effect 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 or teet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 páginas
...striking illustration of the effect 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 or leet pursues his way. And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." I need hardly give any further... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 páginas
...fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, \\ itli head, hands, wings or ftet pursues 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 studied... | |
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