 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but...By a strong siding champion, Conscience. 0 welcome, pure ey'd Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings, And thou, unblemish'd... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1830 - 422 pages
...happily applied to Jeanie Deans upon this singular alarm : — '• These thoughts may startle well, hut not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion— Conscience." In fact, it was, with the recollection of the affectionate and dutiful errand on which she was engaged,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1831 - 372 pages
...mother the advice she had given to her niece in regard to the earL " These thoughts may startle v:di, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. So felt De Vere, when he told his mother that he entirely agreed with her in the propriety of the advice... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...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...hovering angel, girt with golden wings. And thou, unblemished form of chastity ! 1 see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good, t' whom... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...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...hovering angel, girt with golden wings. And thou, unblemished form of chastity ! 1 see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good, t' whom... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...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...astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding champion, Conscience. — 0 welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...sands , and shores , and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound 210 The virtuous mind , that ever walks attended By a...hovering Angel , girt with golden wings, And thou, nnblemish'd form of Chastity! 215 1 see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good, t' whom... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...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...By a strong siding champion, Conscience. 0 welcome purc-ey'd faith, white-handed hope, Thou hovermg angel, girt with golden wings, And thou, unblemish'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 676 pages
...continuation of the passage may be happily applied to Jeanie Deans upon this singular alarm : — " These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The...attended, By a strong siding champion — Conscience." In factj it was, with the recollection of the affectionate and dutiful errand on which she was engaged,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 600 pages
...appropriated and assimilated ; the spirit that is abroad in them shines throughout their speech. ' These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The...attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.' The voice is undoubtedly the voice of Milton ; but though no> very great thing in itself, it expresses... | |
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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 siding champion, Conscience. 
