 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.  The American Whig Review - Page 921849Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...fantasies z05 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 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended Ky a strong... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...darkness do I find. What might this be ? A 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, an A .shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well- but not astound The virtuous... | |
 | 1855 - 620 pages
...have reached the ears of the youthful Milton, who sang in ' Comus ' of ' Calling shapes and beck'ninjj shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's...names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.' Undoubtedly the Puritan divines of England were indebted for some of their most ' remarkable providences... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - Scottish poetry - 1803 - 462 pages
...PART IV. " 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 desart wildernesses." These thoughts may startle well, but not astound " The virtuous mind that ever... | |
 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 334 pages
...Drummelziar, and chief of a powerful clan. To those spirits were also ascribed, in Scotland, the —" Airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." When the workmen were engaged in erecting the ancient church of Old Deer, in Aberdeenshire, upon a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 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." Steeveiis. * Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.] The first words are addressed to Caliban, who, vexed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 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." Stemetw. * Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.l The first words are addressed to Caliban, who, vexed... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 496 pages
...Annette continued on a chair by the hearth, where some feeble embers remained. CHAP. VII. " Of aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." MILTON. IT is now necessary to mention some circumstances, which could not be related amidst the events... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...thousand fantasies 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... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...Melancholy — or ghostly shape, 208 which he supposes to be taken from the following in Comus, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names, is more probably taken from the commeucement of Pope's elegy on an unfortunate lady — What beck'ning... | |
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