A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. Among My Books - Pagina 280door James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 686 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1838 - 392 pagina’s
...was easy, on reflection, to account for them, still it was impossible not to think of Milton's " aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores, and desert wildernesses." (M•) We halted at half past five, a little beyond the spot where we encamped the first time we attempted... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pagina’s
...memory becomes thronged with a thousand fantasies : " Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the consciousness of virtue testores her courage, and she boldly relies on the support of heaven... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pagina’s
...A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pagina’s
...thousand fantasies 205 Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound 210 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pagina’s
...these circumstances Milton also alludes : « calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire ; And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." 5 llifr lakin is a contraction of By our ladykin, the diminutive of our lady. Whom thus we stray to... | |
| 1840 - 870 pagina’s
...derived Milton's fine passage in Comus : — " Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the most remarkable of these desert superstitions, as suggested by the mention of Lord Lindsay,... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pagina’s
...thousand fantasies 'n to throng into my memory Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but iiot astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pagina’s
...A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding... | |
| Patrick Welwood, John Anderson - 1841 - 334 pagina’s
...which I was trained earnestly to contend — which, amidst " Calling shapes and beck'uing shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses," I have followed as my guide — my faith in which, terrors and tortures have not been able to subvert,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pagina’s
...Drummelziar, and chief of a powerful clan. To those spirits were also ascribed, in Scotland, the — " t one end, by a low door, communicating with a passage that leads from the outer door in When the workmen were engaged in erecting the ancient church of Old Deer, in Aberdeenshirc, upon a... | |
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