| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...thousand 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...some 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...some 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... | |
| Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 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... | |
| 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... | |
| James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 408 pages
...thousand " fantasies" -to throng into the memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Forests in every age must have had attractive horrors : otherwise so many nations would not have resorted... | |
| James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 414 pages
...thousand " fantasies" to throng into the memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Forests in every age must have had attractive horrors : otherwise so many nations would not have resorted... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 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... | |
| John Ferriar - Apparitions - 1813 - 156 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. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound. COMU«, 1. 205. LONDON: PRINTED FOR CADELL AND DAVIE3... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...fantasies M5 Begin to throng into my memory, Of culling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Those thoughts may startle well, but not astound, S10 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By... | |
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