...accomplish a task, not a little resembling a celebrated journey described by Milton : O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us...

...his verse tell of toil, in sound as well as sense, he speaks thus : " 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." A fine natural ear teaches the poet to attend to these points, and, without attention to them, versification...

...another flounder! Then, sir, I first knew fatigue. NORTH. " 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." TALBOYS. Finally I reached him — closed on him — when Eolus, or Eurus, or Notus, or Favonius —...

...stealth 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,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first born, Or of the Eternal coeternal...

...swarmed in the sea, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. '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.' With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri...

...his way ; And swims, or sinks, or wados, or creeps, or flies. At length an universal hubbub wild 955 Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne...he plies. Undaunted, to meet there, whatever power, Or spirit, of the nethermost abyss, 960 Might in that noise reside ; of whom to ask, Which way the...

...swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet." " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...

...So lab'ring on, with shoulders, hands, and head,] " So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics." Milton, Book ii.— P. With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob seems...

...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,...thither he plies, Undaunted to meet there whatever Power 955 Or Spirit of the nethermost abyss Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask Which way the nearest...

...the enemy of mankind to overcome obstacles hitherto unsurmounted — " 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 ;" Whilst the baffling of the celestial guard that watched Eden, and the final accomplishment of the...