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Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 921.

O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,

With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,

And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 948.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,

Confusion worse confounded.