...did Thomson, Beattie, Byron and Shelley adopt it ? XIV. " 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." " O now, for ever, XV. Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop, and...

...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 : iso At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through...

...foot and half-flying. Appalled by no change of circumstances, 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. At length, led by a confusion of discordant sounds, he arrived at the dominions of Chaos, where Night...

...64-5. O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Iliad, xxiii. 141. O'er bog or sleep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. PL ii. 948-50. (The first case was pointed out by Pope.) With arms expanded Bernard rows his state....

...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. At length, a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow...

...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,...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...

...on he slogs: "behoves him now both Oare and Saile," says the poet sarcastically: Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes . . . [2.948-50] At length he blunders into "a universal hubbub wilde" which represents the storm-center...

..."tread[sj" the "crude consistence, half on foot, / Half flying": 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 ... (II. 947-50) So too, when Satan appears on the outer shell of the created universe, he discovers...

...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,...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...

...Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying. 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. To travel through Eden, (2.940-42, 947-50) Satan had journey'd on, pensive and slow; But further way...