| 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....These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, " The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended " By a strong siding champion, Conscience. " O! welcome... | |
| John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a ftrong-fiding champion, confcience..—. 0 welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering Angel, girt with golden wings, And thou, unblemith'd form of Chaftity! - - 215 I fee ye vifibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good,... | |
| John Milton - English drama - 1797 - 484 pages
...dire, i And aery tongues, that syllable mens' names These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. 0 ! welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hov'ring angel, girt with golden wings, And thou unblemish'd... | |
| 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
...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... | |
| 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,...a strong siding champion, conscience— 0 welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wingt, And thou unblemish'd... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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