 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
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 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... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...a thousand forms would distract his vision — " Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." Or, if the veil which covered the heavens were parted ; if the vaporous curtain were drawn aside, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...fantasies 205 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 210 The virtuous mind , that ever walks attended By... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 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 any thing terrible, and notices, " how... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 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 any thing terrible, and notices, " how... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...phantasies 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. Warton says, " I remember these superstitions, which are here finely applied, in the ancient voyages... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...instance, (in his Faithful Shepherdess) : And voices calling me in dead of night. Milton, also : — And airy tongues, that syllable men's names, On sands and shores and desert wildernesses3. A short time after, I was afflicted by another dream. I was buried, methought, beneath... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1838 - 392 pages
...was easy, on reflection, to account for them, still it was impossible not to think of Milton's " aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores, and desert wildernesses." (M•) We halted at half past five, a little beyond the spot where we encamped the first time we attempted... | |
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