| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...men's names On sands, and shores, and deecrt wilderne 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 hovering angel, girt with golden wings And thou, unblemish'd... | |
| Walter Scott - English literature - 1836 - 574 pages
...thousand fantasies 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." Burke observes upon obscurity, that it is necessary to make any thing terrible, and notices, " howmuch... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...(in his Faithful Shepherdess) : And voices calling me in dead of night. Milton, also :— And airy tongues, that syllable men's names, On sands and shores and desert wildernesses 5 . A short time after, I was afflicted by another dream. I was buried, methought, beneath a high mountain,... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...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,...wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, conscience.— 0 welcome pure-eyed... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...becomes thronged with a thousand fantasies: " Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the consciousness of virtue restores her courage, and she boldly relies on the support of heaven:... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...my memory And aery tongues, that syllable men's names Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, 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. Thou hovering... | |
| England - 1840 - 882 pages
...derived Milton's fine passage in Comus:— " Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names , On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the most remarkable of these desert superstitions, as suggested by the mention of Lord Lindsay,... | |
| Ann Fenwick, John Fenwick - 1840 - 38 pages
...The excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it." " O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, " Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings, " And thou, unbleraish'd form of chastity." NEWCASTLE: EMERSON CHARNLEY, BIGG-MARKET. .' :? ' FP 1C* 1 • .' -'CI... | |
| Scotland - 1840 - 906 pages
...Polo WHS derived Milton's fine passage " Of calling shapes, and beckoning sha. dows dire. And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the most remarkable of th desert superstitions, as suggested by the mention of Lord Lindsay, is... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...thousand fantasies 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,...wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding champion, Conscience.— 0 welcome pure-eyed... | |
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