...o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies; At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus'd, Borne through the hollow...

...hill or 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, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, 9* rebuff] Compare Statii Thcb. vii. 35. ' Atquo ilium Arctoie labentem cardinc porte Tempcstas ceterna...

...the kindred reptiles which swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet."* « The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, book 2. Insects, it is imagined, were the food of the pterodacylus, as, where the remains...

...on, with shoulders, hands, and head] ' So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, o'er sleep, through streight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Wide as a windmill all his figure spread, With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, 67 And left-legg'd...

...on, with shoulders, hands, and head] ' So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, o'er steep, through streight, rough, dense, or rare. With head, hands, wings, or...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or files." Wide as a windmill all his figure spread, With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, 67 And...

...controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With bead, hands, wings or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." Were we to adduce the most striking instance of the plastic nature of this kind of proof, we should...

...hill or 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, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks,...

...for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbu. lent planet. "The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri...

...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend O'ei bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,...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...

...mind, Milton's celebrated description of Satan's flight: " O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rongh, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." Eloquence as well as poetry has also contributed its share of misguided exertion, in which labor has...