 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pagine
...940 Treading the 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 or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pagine
...laborious flight through the chaos. As when a Gryphon thro' the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold.- — - Par. Lost. b.ii. 943, * Lib. viii, c. ii. One of the authorities... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pagine
...940 Treading the 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 or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd •... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pagine
...his hidden 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pagine
...940 TreadingIhe 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 or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 94i Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pagine
...fares, Treading the 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 or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin' d The guarded... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 468 pagine
...book of Paradise Lost : As when a griffin thro' the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or mossy dale, Pursues the Arimaspian. who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Lucan speaks of the Arimaspians as a people who ornamented their hair with gold. Auorque ligatas .... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 236 pagine
...Milton employs this fable in a fine simile,, describing Satan's laborious flight through the chaos. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pagine
...fares, 940 Treading the 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 or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth IMS Had from his wakeful custody purloin 'd The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 364 pagine
...down around it, did ample honour to the contents of the basket. CHAPTER III. •m.' f. - * 'r** • As when a Gryphon through the wilderness, With winged...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend— Paradise Lost. WHEN their collation was ended,... | |
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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... 
