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
| John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...phantasies Begin to tarong ,nto my memory, Of eulling shapes, and beekening shadows d,re, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Warton says, "I remember these superstitions, whieh are here finely applied, in the aneient voyages... | |
| GEORGE MOORE - 1852 - 466 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." Comus. The prevalent superstitions of the Arabians are probably here referred to, for these people,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 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... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pages
...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... | |
| 1852 - 460 pages
...of Lop, to the ghastly calling of people's names — to " Voices calling ill the dead of niglit, 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... | |
| 1852 - 874 pages
...memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, Forbidding every bleak unkindly fog ill And aery These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
| 1853 - 880 pages
...age. Thus the dead survive, and the authority of greatness passes round the globe, transmitted by " . "Airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." ARTICLE VI. THE DISTINCTIVE IDEA OF PREACHING. By Calvin Pease, Professor in the University of Vermont.... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 316 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,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 318 pages
...derived Milton's fine passage in Comus : — ' 8f 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,... | |
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