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——
Book II. v. 943.
In the possession of John Knowles, Esq.
Picture XI.
Satan bursts from Chaos.
He ceas'd; and Satan stay'd not to reply,
But——
Springs upward like a pyramid of fire.
Book II. v. 1010.
In the possession of the Countess of Guilford.
Picture XII.
Ulysses between Scylla and Charybdis.
An exemplification of Satan straitened in his passage to Light.
——Harder beset
Than when Ulysses on the larboard shunn'd
Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steer'd
So he with difficulty and labour hard
Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
Book II. v. 1019.
In the possession of the Countess of Guilford.