 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
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 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 virtnous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 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... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 pages
...felt the luxury of being for a short time alone, and alone in a solitude where fancy might listen for those " Airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." i As we sat at sunset on our poop, sipping our coffee, d la Turque, we were much struck with the scene.... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 pages
...felt the luxury of being for a short time alone, and alone in a solitude where fancy might listen for those " Airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." As we sat at sunset on our poop, sipping our coffee, a la Turque, we were much struck with the scene.... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1825 - 350 pages
...These are, to use the words of the divine Milton, the Calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names, On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. " These spirits often foretell men's deaths," saith old Burton, «' by severall signs, as knocking,... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1825 - 986 pages
...fantasies Begin to throng into the memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.' " Providence now gratified a frequent desire of my heart, — that I might be in a situation, so circumstanced,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 pages
...of 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." 1 By'r LAKIN is a contraction of % our 1.ADYK1N, the diminutive of our lady. Who am myself attach'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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 - 1832 - 354 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 By a strong-siding... | |
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