 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
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...are Milton's, as when the bewildered lady speaks : 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... | |
 | English Association - 1920 - 156 pages
...the kingdoms old Into another mould ; or these : Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses; or these : Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done, And we must sleep; or these : Light thickens,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 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. She recalls her virtue and her chastity, and announces in somewhat stilted verse her confidence in... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 1994 - 248 pages
...they follow the call they will be lost and perish (i, xxxvi). This also passes into Milton and becomes those airy tongues that syllable men's names On Sands and Shores and desert wildernesses. (Comus, 208-9.) An interesting attempt has recently been made1 to show that some real knowledge of... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 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 (11. 205-9) But the Lady does not so much temper her imagination with reason as unqualifiedly reject... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 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. John Milton, 1634, Comus, A Mask, 204 12:30 [advice to her daughter about the education of her grand-daughter]... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 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 srartle well, but not astound0 210 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By... | |
 | Maureen McMahon - 2004 - 207 pages
...sped urgently toward the hospital. Chapter Seven Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores and desert wilderness. John Milton Comus, A Mask I FOUND A new retreat where even David would be hard-pressed... | |
 | MaryJanice Davidson - 2005 - 260 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. —John Milton, Comus Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. —Days of our... | |
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