 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
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pages
...desert of Lop, to the ghastly calling of people's names—to " Voices calling in the dead of night, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." He has another line in the same passage about " ghastly fury's apparition," which we cannot but think... | |
 | 1887 - 700 pages
...style, now discoursing on the majesty of the night, the mystery of the fields, and suggesting the Air; tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses, and now railing, à propot to music, at his countrymen who, while they have applauded with frenxy the"... | |
 | 1849 - 820 pages
...passage in Milton's Comus, in which he speaks Of calling shapes nml beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names, On sands, and shores, and. desert wildernesses, — is supposed by Dr. Warton to refer to an Eastern superstition recorded by Marco Holo, that, in... | |
 | 1850 - 548 pages
...tell of things able to inspire the mind of Milton with " Calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." It was easy enough to believe the story of Dante, when two thirds of even the upper-world were yet... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And uiry 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 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." Whom thus we stray to find ; and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land : Well, let him go. Ant.... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...thousand phantasies 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. Those thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1851 - 494 pages
...throng into the memory of venerable priests, and kind, gracious beckoning monks and nuns, and i^ntle tongues that syllable men's names on sands and shores, and desert wildernesses, and all creating thoughts which in one way or other lead us to the rock on which we have secure rest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 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 By our ladykin, the diminutive of our lady. Through forth-rights,... | |
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