 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 Waverley Novels - Page 270by Walter Scott - 1859Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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 gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through straight, rough, dense,... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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 gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense,... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1812 - 468 pages
...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 .... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1816 - 364 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...now both oar and sail. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er liill 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 steep, through strait, rough, dense... | |
 | Virgil - Pastoral poetry, English - 1820 - 456 pages
...;Paradise Lost ; As when a griffin through the wilderness ! With winged course, o'er hill or raoory dale, ; Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold. 28. Timidi . . . damce."] It is to be observed, that Virgil makes dama... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 504 pages
...Milton draws his simile — 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 gold. O was it warwolfin the wood ? — P. 29. v. 4, Warwolf, or Lycanthropus,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...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 purloin'd The guarded gold. Lucan speaks of the Arimaspians as a people who ornamented their hair with... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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 gold : so eagerly the Fiend [rare, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,... | |
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