 | Hakluyt Society - 1847 - Počet stránok 126
...Herodotean myth (Her., iii. 116), which Milton has rendered into stately verse— " As when a gryphon in the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold" But the scene has been transferred from the north of Europe to .¿Ethiopia.... | |
 | Hakluyt Society - 1847 - Počet stránok 126
...Herodotean myth (Her., iii. 116), which Milton has rendered into stately verse — " As when a gryphon in the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory...Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold" But the scene has been transferred from the north of Europe to Ethiopia.... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - Počet stránok 650
...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 bis wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep,... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 822
...Herodotus (Thalia, 116, and Melpomene, 13,27)toMilton(Por«dite Loit, book v.) — " As when a Gryphon, through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale. Pursues the Arimupian," &C. * Of the many mysterious chapters of the human mind, surely one of the most obscure... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - Počet stránok 452
...cvnaQs yrjun' Aflrxlsi].— (T.) Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail.1 As when a gryphon,2 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 strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands,... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - Počet stránok 704
...consistence, half on foot, Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail, As when aj^riffan^Jh rough the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory...from his wakeful custody, purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands,... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - Počet stránok 630
...compares Satan in his flight to the Gryphon, in the following beautiful passage : " 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,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1850 - Počet stránok 368
...foot half flying:"— " As when a Griphon, through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth...from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold." Their 97. Pliny, speaking of the Scythians, or people conTribes, founded under that name by classic... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - Počet stránok 302
...commonly spelt pinions. 941. There is much in this description similar to that IB Spenser of the dragon. With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 045 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend [rare, O'er bog,... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - Počet stránok 472
...crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying: behoves him now both oar arid 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 bogj or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings,... | |
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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... 
