 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...  The Great Dionysiak Myth - Pàgina 335per Robert Brown - 1877 - 18 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pàgines
...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...stealth 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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pàgines
...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 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,... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pàgines
...Milton employs this fable in a fine simile, describing Satan's laborious flight through the chaos. As when a Gryphon thro' the wilderness With winged...stealth Had 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pàgines
...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 • The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pàgines
...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...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 236 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 468 pàgines
...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... | |
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