 As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...  Virgil: The Eclogues - Side 56af Virgil - 1834Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 sider
...crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 sider
...crude consistence, half on foot, 941 Half fly'ng ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a Griffon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill...moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold. So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 sider
...fable in a fine simile, describing Satan's laborious flight through the chaos. As when a Gryphon thro' the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold.- — - Par. Lost. b.ii. 943, * Lib. viii, c. ii. One of the authorities quoted for this story is Herodotus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 sider
...crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill...moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd • The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 sider
...treasures. From these authorities, and that of Herodotus, our Milton draws his simile — As when a Gryphon, through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arhnaspian, who, by stealth. Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold. 0 was it warwolf... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 sider
...crude consistence, half on foot, Half fly'ing ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill...moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 94i Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 sider
...crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying ; behoves him now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin' d The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sider
...oar and sail. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dak, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 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, [way, With head,... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 236 sider
...As when a Gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, • < Porsues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold. Par. Lost. b. ii- 943. * • . One of the authorities quoted for this story is Herodotus, who expressly... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 430 sider
...Gryphon through tde wilderness With winged course; o'er hill : 6r moory dale, Pursues the A rimaspian, who by stealth ..^ Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd * The guarded gold - • Par. Lost. b. : "- '•• :"-! '> r' ^L ./jii.-inl j. \ .:V.*I : One of the autborities quoted... | |
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