 | 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,...desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended Ky a strong siding champion, Conscience.—... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1896 - 1086 pages
...Over all there is that vague, exquisite appreciation of the unknown that Milton exhibits when he talks Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And...names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses; and Keats when he writes of the undescribed sounds That come a.swooning over hollow grounds And wither... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...and perfect in my list'ning ear, " Yet nought but single 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, 260. " And aery tongues, that syllable mens' names " On sands, and shores,... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - Scottish poetry - 1803 - 462 pages
...Fyert. Return of Farquhar. Devastation of the Country after the year 1745. THE HIGHLANDERS: t PART IV. " A thousand fantasies " Begin to throng into my memory,...that syllable men's names " On sands, and shores, and desart wildernesses. 1 " These thoughts may startle well, but not astound " The virtuous mind that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...of 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 - 1806 - 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." Steepens. * Wilt come? I'll follow, Step!iano.] The first words are addressed to Caliban, who, vexed... | |
 | Walter Scott - Love poetry, Scottish - 1807 - 382 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
...rife, and perfect in tny list'ning ear, Yet nought but single darkness do I find. AVhat might this be ? A 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1808 - 352 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." It is not here, it is not here, That ye shall build the church of Deer; But on Taptillery, Where many... | |
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1 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. These thoughts may startle •well, hut not astound, The virtuous... 
