 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 σελίδες
...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 Milton - 1801 - 396 σελίδες
...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 • The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 σελίδες
...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 guarded... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 σελίδες
...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 guarded... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...this fable, Milton makes a happy use in his second book of Paradise Lost : As when a griffin thro' the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or mossy...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... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 236 σελίδες
...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 The... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 course, o'er hill and moory dale> Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded... | |
 | 1849 - 802 σελίδες
...history from Herodotus (Tkalia, 1 1 6, and Melpomene, 13, 27) to Milton (Paradite Loit, book T.) — " As when a Gryphon, through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian," &c. * Of the many mysterious chapters of the human mind, surely... | |
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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... 
