 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
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 338 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,... | |
 | 1854 - 850 pages
...confounded with the general mass; and Robert even fancied at the moment, that as the door shut upon his last memorable leave-taking, he had heard, amid the sound,...agitated visitor ; and the astute man of the world, instructed by his knowledge of the context of circumstances, read in his expression the new suspicion... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 pages
...fancied at the moment, that as the door shut upon his last memorable leave-taking, he had heard, nmid the sound, a calling voice that thrilled through his...those airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, anil shores, and desert wildernesses '. Lord Luxton looked keenly at his agitated visitor ; and the... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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... | |
 | 1854 - 822 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." " The article is concluded by a spirited notice, — which will, of course, be read with interest at... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 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,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pages
...thousand phantasies 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of ealling shapes, and beek'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Milton's Сamus. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay ereatures of the element, That in the eolours... | |
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