 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 1641854Full view - About this book
 | John Ferriar - 1813 - 156 pages
...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. COMU«, 1. 205. LONDON: PRINTED FOR CADELL AND DAVIE3... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...Drummelziar, and chief of a powerful clan. To those spirits were also ascribed, in Scotland, the —" Airy tongues, that syllable men's names, On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." When the workmen were engaged in erecting the ancient church of Old Deer, in Aberdeenshire, upon a... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...thousand fantasies M5 Begin to throng into my memory, Of culling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Those thoughts may startle well, but not astound, S10 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin 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 not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 pages
...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." STEEVENS. 3 Wilt come ? I'll follow, Stephano.] The first words are addressed to Caliban, who, vexed... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin 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 not -astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin 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 not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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. JWilton's Comus. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element. That in the colours... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended Ü1 1... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhœan rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hi These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong... | |
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