 | John Bell - 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... | |
 | 1855 - 620 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 a strong... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 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... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
