| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...tradewind (airy) has the shape of a tongue, the tongue's end being at Cape Maisy; and on the south side . On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended 211 By a strong-siding champion, Conscience. O, welcome... | |
| Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...shape of a tongue, the tongue's end beiog at Cape Maisy; and on the south side 'to sbi/Jijitm, .• • On sands,- and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended 211 By a strong-siding champion, Conscience. O, welcome... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 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... | |
| Edward Smedley - 1814 - 74 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And aerie tongues that syllable men's names, On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Comus, 205. 205. So the Angel Gabriel in Tasso : Pria sul Libano monte ei si ritenne E si libra sull... | |
| George John Freeman - 464 pages
...phantasies 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! O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white handed Hope, / Thou Thou hovering Angel, girt with golden wings !... | |
| John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...airy tongues, that syllable men's names 500 COMtTS. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.— 0 welcome, pnre-ey'd Faith ; white-handed Hope, Thon hovering angel, girt with golden wings; And thou, unblemish'd... | |
| William Beloe - English literature - 1817 - 402 pages
...representation of similar virtues exemplified in such trials, As may startle well but not astound TI.e virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion Conscience. CHAP. LI. P. 344. Might not she who is concisely characterized in this chapter have exclaimed, Mortals... | |
| William Beloe - 1817 - 400 pages
...representation of similar virtues exemplified in such trials. As may startle well but not astound T:.e virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion Conscience. CHAP. LI. P. 344. Might not she who is concisely characterized in this chapter have exclaimed, Mortals... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 350 pages
...applied to Jeanie Deans upon this singular alarm : " These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion — Conscience." In fact, it was with the recollection of the and dutiful errand on which she \vas etv^a%e&.,\«\ if... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores,...These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. 0 welcome, pure... | |
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