| Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1838 - 396 páginas
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." Comus. Milton, as has been well remarked by Warton, probably borrowed this idea from the popular narrative... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 páginas
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 páginas
...thousand fantasies 205 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 210 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 páginas
...memory becomes thronged with a thousand fantasies : " Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the consciousness of virtue testores her courage, and she boldly relies on the support of heaven... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 páginas
...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." 5 llifr lakin is a contraction of By our ladykin, the diminutive of our lady. Whom thus we stray to... | |
| 1840 - 870 páginas
...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,... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...thousand fantasies 'n to throng into my memory Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but iiot astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
| Patrick Welwood, John Anderson - 1841 - 334 páginas
...was trained earnestly to contend — which, amidst " Calling shapes and beck'uing shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses," I have followed as my guide — my faith in which, terrors and tortures have not been able to subvert,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 páginas
...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." Burke observes upon obscurity, that it is necessary to make anything terrible, and notices, " how much... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 páginas
...Drummelziar, and chief of a powerful clan. To those spirits were also ascribed, in Scotland, the — " t one end, by a low door, communicating with a passage that leads from the outer door in When the workmen were engaged in erecting the ancient church of Old Deer, in Aberdeenshirc, upon a... | |
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