 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
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 338 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,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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... | |
 | 1854 - 850 pagina’s
...voice that thrilled through his brain, not so much like a woman's, as resembling the cry of those • airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses ! Lord Luxton looked keenly at his agitated visitor ; and the astute man of the world, instructed by... | |
 | 1854 - 822 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." " The article is concluded by a spirited notice, — which will, of course, be read with interest at... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 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,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pagina’s
...thousand phantasies 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pagina’s
...A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of ealling shapes, and beek'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Milton's Cатиs. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay ereatures of the element, That in the eolours... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pagina’s
...thousand phantasies 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 virtiious mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
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