...wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies: (PL, n.943-5o) Alone among critics in giving any thought to the reality of the griffin, Svendsen argues...

...by a mixture of asyndeton and brachylogia: so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies [...]. (PL 2: 947-50) The repetition imitates a physical effort that is exhausting and seemingly endless,...

...speaking and hearing. It is something like what Milton's Satan tries to find as he moves through Chaos: o At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds...vehemence: thither he plies, Undaunted to meet there what ever power Or spirit of the nethermost abyss Might in that noise reside.26 The rumors at work...

...wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend0 O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings or...thither he plies, Undaunted to meet there whatever power Or spirit of the nethermost abyss Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask Which way the nearest...

...945 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, With head,...universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd Borne through the hollow dark assaults his ear With loudest vehemence: thither he plies, Undaunted...

...MS 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, With head,...universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd 920. peal'd: struck or deafened by English translation (1651) of Comenius' noise. Cf. IIl,...

...Horror. 64. Giblett, Postmodern Wetlands, i43. In Milton's Paradise Lost, the "Fiend," O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare. With head,...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. (Milton, Poetical Works i: 52, act 2, lines 947—50) 65. Ruskm contrasts flowing and stagnant water...

...stealth, Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold; so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare With head, hands,...And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. — MILTON, PARADISE LOST The Seraph from Its Sepulcher The inscribed prayer was to be recited at each...

...wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold, so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. •^Paradise Lost 2.921-950 Milton has introduced into this narrative scene at least one and perhaps...

...as the substance "infus'd" with "vital virtue" by the Son: So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head,...And swims or sinks, or wades or creeps, or flies: At length a universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd Borne through the hollow...