 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...list'ning ear, Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be? A 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... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...memory, " Of calling shapes and beck'ning shadows dire, 260 . " And aery tongues, that syllable mens' names " On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses....The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended " By a strong siding champion, Conscience. " O ! welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, " Thou hov'ring... | |
 | John Milton - English drama - 1797 - 484 pages
...memory, " Of calling shapes and beck'ning shadows dire, zCo " And aery tongues, that syllable mens' names " On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses....The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended " By a strong siding champion, Conscience. " OI welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, " Thou hov'ring... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 468 pages
...And aery tongues, that syllable mens' names " On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. A&l. 11 These thoughts may startle well, but not astound.,...The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended " By a strong siding champion, Conscience. " O i welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,, " Thou hov'ring... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...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,...airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, an A .shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well- but not astound The virtuous... | |
 | 1855 - 620 pages
...have reached the ears 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... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - Scottish poetry - 1803 - 462 pages
...PART IV. " 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 desart wildernesses." These thoughts may startle well, but not astound " The virtuous mind that ever... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...list'ning ear, Yet sought 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, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...of Melancholy — or ghostly shape, 208 which he supposes to be taken from the following in Comus, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names, is more probably taken from the commeucement of Pope's elegy on an unfortunate lady — What beck'ning... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...of Melancholy — or ghostly shape, 208 which he supposes to be taken from the following iu Comus, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names, is more probably taken from the commencement of Pope's elegy on an unfortunate lady—- What beck'ning... | |
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What might this be ? 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. 
