 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
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 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." Burke observes upon obscurity, that it is necessary to make anything terrible, and notices, " how much... | |
 | State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania - 1843 - 550 pages
...intelligent omcers, satisfy me that the average daily conversation of each prisoner, unless it be with those "Airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses," does not exceed, if, indeed, it equals, ten minutes. This is quite too little. Men of strong and cultivated... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 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 strong... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And uld pray to live; And in the midst of so much gold, Unbought with grace, or fear uueoM These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 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... | |
 | George Moore - 1846 - 452 pages
...words of Milton haunt the memory of most readers : " Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." — COMDS. The prevalent superstitions of the Arabians are probably here referred to, for these people,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And D These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 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-siding... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...thousand fantasies Began to throng into my memory, Of еаШпг shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." Had a procession of pale ghosts uprisen from the strand, or some huge sea-monster suddenly emerged... | |
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