 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
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1838 - 396 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." Comus. Milton, as has been well remarked by Warton, probably borrowed this idea from the popular narrative... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...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 pages
...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 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 210 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 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." 5 llifr lakin is a contraction of By our ladykin, the diminutive of our lady. Whom thus we stray to... | |
 | 1840 - 870 pages
...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 pages
...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 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 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding... | |
 | Patrick Welwood, John Anderson - 1841 - 334 pages
...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 pages
...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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